Aside from the engineering schools and schools of medicine. most colleges, especially the Ivy, have become anti-Jew, anti-Christian, pro-Mohammedan, pro-Communist, Leftist indoctrination tanks.
A pox on them.
This article argues that like what happens to the newspapers, the internet could actually change the face of higher education, especially if tuition gets to be too prohibitive.
The article states:
There is one respect in which the higher-education bubble may not be like the housing bubble. We can be assured that housing will eventually recover, because people will always need a place to live. People will always need education, too, but it does not follow that they will always need universities. That is why higher education may follow a different course. Its bubble has been like the bubble for housing—but its collapse may be like the collapse of the newspapers.
The newspapers have been collapsing because of a technological advance that makes them obsolete. The Internet has lowered the cost and increased the speed of communication, causing both to converge toward zero. By contrast, paper has become the slow and expensive medium for the transmission of ideas. Printed publications are becoming a luxury item, like fountain pens, to be enjoyed for the nostalgic charm of feeling the texture of the pages under one’s fingertips, but not to be purchased for everyday use.
This has hit newspapers the hardest, because they made money by packaging information with other services that had enormous economic value: the old-fashioned “classified ads.” When I was a kid, if you were looking for a job, you picked up the newspaper and looked at the want ads. More to the point, if you were an employer, you paid to place those ads. The same goes for grocery stores offering coupons, for someone looking to sell a used car, for small entrepreneurs trying to sell their services, for singles looking for a date.
Today, where do you go for those same purposes? All of them are done online. All. The newspapers have been disconnected from an enormous stream of commerce on which they used to rely. That’s why they won’t recover. All they have left to offer is their content.
Universities face the same underlying economic problem. They, too, bundled their core product, education, with other services that had enormous economic value and which could seemingly only be obtained by going through the universities. The universities served as a system for credentialing and for social networking. A student emerged from a university with a network of social contacts—other students, alumni, professors—on which he could draw in looking for work. And his degree certified a certain level of expertise (if it is in a specific technical field) or at least certified his ability to engage in a sustained course of study over a period of years. But this kind of credentialing is just another form of social networking.
You left out the service academies!