By Professor Doom
1)
Student
loan debt is 1.2 trillion dollars, more than any other form of consumer debt.
Unlike houses, cars, and other goods, higher education cannot be “liquidated”
to pay back this debt if it turns out the good, “education” is worthless.
2)
The
Average student debt is $29,400. This sort of debt cannot be discharged via
bankruptcy, so a graduate must start paying it off right away before it
balloons.
3)
Although we’re told getting a college degree is
the path to riches, 53%
of college graduates are unemployed or underemployed. These graduates can’t
start paying off the debts immediately. Those debts just get larger, and
larger, with no hope of paying them off.
4)
Food banks organize
themselves to help feed college professors, since most are paid very little
and given no benefits, so they qualify for welfare. Even graduate degrees from
higher education don’t mean much, apparently.
5)
College
classes can now have 1,000 or more students, even as tuition rises and
rises. What kind of education can you get in a huge hall where the “master”
might never get within 100 yards of you? You’re better off opening the book and
studying on your own time.
6)
College professors can make more tutoring 1 on 1
($30 or more an hour) than teaching in college. It’s a bad sign for education
when both teacher and student are better off with no school involved.
7)
Although colleges have grossly increased their
student base, there’s been little increase in faculty. Although
most college employees used to be faculty, now it’s mostly administration and
support for administrators.
8)
College president pay is skyrocketing, with
$1,000,000 salaries (plus awesome benefits like a mansion, jet, and other
expenses quite common) typical, even
though it’s known the more you pay the president, the worse off the students
are. The map pictured above, incidentally, is the highest paid public
employee by state—usually a university coach, but always someone in higher
education (never a scholar or teacher, however).
9)
Most college work is high school level or lower,
much
lower, as in the 6th grade. Not
the 6th grade of a century ago, but the same 6th grade
taught in the public school down the road, on the same day the same material is
taught in “college”.
10)
Many campuses are filled with “Pell
Runners”, students that roam from campus to campus, getting free grant
money because the highly paid administration doesn’t have time to keep records.
Administrators care about growth, not education, so all warm bodies are welcome
on campus, even if they’re there strictly for fraud.
There is so much
fraud and corruption going on in higher education that it’s hard to stop at
just ten.
While accredited
schools are often shams, unaccredited, for-profit schools exist which are quite
legitimate--they don't even charge tuition in advance. Instead, they take
it out of your paycheck--if you don't get a job after graduating, you owe
nothing. Why aren't accredited schools good enough for that?
Accreditation,
which is supposed to verify schools are legitimate, does no such thing, and the
rules of accreditation provide no penalties. This is why even
serious and 18 year long violations of accreditation yield no penalty to
the schools involved, even when the schools intimidate and use fraud to cover
up the violations. The reason for this is accreditation is run by the same
people concurrently while these people hold administrative positions in higher
education. Conflict
of interest, anyone?
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