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America's College Towns Go From Boom to Bust
For generations, colleges around the U.S. fueled local economies, creating jobs and bringing in students to shop and spend.
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Universities brought life and livelihoods to college towns across America. Falling student enrollment is now pushing many of these towns from boom to bust"with no end in sight.[image or embed]" The Wall Street Journal (@wsj.com) May 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Universities brought life and livelihoods to college towns across America. Falling student enrollment is now pushing many of these towns from boom to bust"with no end in sight.[image or embed]
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"College towns are now threatened by federal-funding cuts from the Trump administration, resulting in hiring freezes and layoffs at Ivy League and state schools alike. Administration efforts to cancel student visas might hurt state college budgets, since most international students pay higher, out-of-state tuition."
Republicans have always hated higher education and are going to great lengths to destroy it.
#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-20 12:59 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3
"#1 | Posted by snoofy"
The issue is plummeting enrollment at all be the top universities because the liberals have destroyed the ROI on college. Now, you don't actually learn much - it is more of less completely basic high school classes + 1 to 2 years of new information. Of the time spend, 50% of more is spent on classes unrelated to your major - but forced to be taken to guarantee employment for the otherwise unemployable liberal arts PhDs. So, you career prospects are poor compared to prior years because employers know they are not getting an employee with much actual knowledge but a sense of self-entitlement that makes training them difficult. Lastly, they have exploded the cost of the education itself.
As I said - industries controlled by the liberal destroy themselves. College is just the latest example. They are in the process of killing Hollywood and the NBA - and they are well on their way to destroying the US government.
#2 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-20 02:18 AM | Reply
Of the time spend, 50% of more is spent on classes unrelated to your major - but forced to be taken to guarantee employment for the otherwise unemployable liberal arts PhDs.
#2 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-20 02:18 AM | Reply | Flag:
The State of Texas requires you have take something in philosophy, the arts, multiple writing credits, history and politics, science labs, etc, that have nothing to do a CS degree. Abbot the liberal? Mmm, no.
#3 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-05-20 08:28 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
General Ed credits are to help ensure that graduates are well-rounded instead of robotic psychos
#4 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-20 09:03 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
"Of the time spend, 50% of more is spent on classes unrelated to your major"
It's called being a well rounded individual. Not something you are capable of understanding.
#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-20 09:07 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#1 Republicans have always hated higher education, not for their kids...just for the "Poors".
FTFY.
#6 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-05-20 09:18 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
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