Before the 1970s....the typical programs that a college offered was: engineering, science, history, medicine, and business-related. You could take any of these and generally find work. I suspect that we’ve come to a point where there are worthless degrees, and someone ought to explain that to a kid before he finishes high school.
But another topic here....is how a college operates. If you take $18k as normal tuition now for a college, and you have 20k students at this state-run university, then you ought to generate around $360 million a year. Now, as Chancellor...if you figure in some income from sports, some donations from alumini, and the state giving some funds for construction....you ought to be able to run that college easily for $360 million. In fact, you ought to be able to hand back $1k to each and every kid easily.
I’m of the mind that Chancellors need to start explaining how they spend their $360 million a year and where the operational costs really sits. Once you understand how their “business” is structured....we might come to agree that it’s really screwed up and states need to retake the operation and run colleges with cost emphasis in mind.
And, the “Chancellor” would refer you to the GOVERNMENT requirements....
Universities are also generally very stingy with their endowment money. Several have multiple billions of dollars in endowment money, but they hardly ever dip into it. They want their endowments to keep growing.
“and where the operational costs really sits.”
You have to pay the salary of the Dean of Diversity, and her/his/its’ staff, and those SEIU boys are built like tanks and they don’t come cheap either, and a LOT more.../s;)