Small U.S. Colleges Battle Death Spiral as Enrollment Drops

[bijou]

At a Dowling College campus on Long Island’s south shore, a fleet of unused shuttle buses sits in an otherwise empty parking lot. A dormitory is shuttered, as are a cafeteria, bookstore and some classrooms in the main academic building.

“There’s a lot of fear here,” said Steven Fournier, a senior who lived in the now-closed dorm for his first three years. “It’s not the same college I arrived at.”

Dowling, which got a failing grade for its financial resources from accreditors last month, epitomizes the growing plight of many small private colleges that depend almost entirely on tuition for revenue. It’s been five years since the recession ended and yet their finances are worsening. Soaring student debt, competition from online programs and poor job prospects for graduates are shrinking their applicant pools.  ...

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[JohnnyReb]

The wonderful Obama economy is working.

[NHSparky]

Couple that with the fact that most people would rather work for $20/hour in a skilled trade than $10/hour as a barista, and not have $150K in debt to go along with it.

And while you're at it, you can add the fact that declining enrollment post-baby boom is another story, people are getting tired of the indoctrination versus education, and so on, so forth...

You get the idea.

[obumazombie]

Gonna use this to brag about the owebumecnomy on my other forum.

[Sam Dodd]

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Corporate America is running online colleges, getting federal dollars from the republicans to do it.  mike Pence, former Representative from Indiana and now the governor must be HEAVILY invested in online public education.  He pushes the program K-12 which is run by a corporation in VA.

[DumbAss Tanker]

If they keep pissing on the students' common sense and freedom in favor of being on board for every Leftist cause from White Privilege to Rape Culture to mistreating Christians because the LGBLTXYZ don't feel 'Safe' with them on campus (Like Bowdoin is doing), their doom is entirely their own fault.

[NHSparky]

Corporate America is running online colleges, getting federal dollars from the republicans to do it.  mike Pence, former Representative from Indiana and now the governor must be HEAVILY invested in online public education.  He pushes the program K-12 which is run by a corporation in VA.

You're a special kind of stupid, aren't you?

Can you tell me which way academia leans politically?

[DumbAss Tanker]

Corporate America is running online colleges, getting federal dollars from the republicans to do it.  mike Pence, former Representative from Indiana and now the governor must be HEAVILY invested in online public education.  He pushes the program K-12 which is run by a corporation in VA.

 

My wife teaches for one (Which also happens to have seated classes), and takes her work as seriously as any other teacher, as do all the other faculty I've met from the place.  It's a real school which has been around quite awhile, not run by some industrialist or Obama-bribing-donating internet tycoon.  It doesn't receive Federal money, though many of the students are on some form of Federally-guaranteed student financing, which they could just as easily use at a public institution, EXCEPT THEY WANT JOBS, NOT HISTORY OR ART APPRECIATION DEGREES.