Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Colleges Closing

Education is overpriced and underperforming.  Sallie Mae Student Loans pose a liability that reached $1 trillion this year. Consequently, Sallie Mae removed student loans from dozens of colleges.

 

This past year, many for-profit education corporations were forced out of business when Sallie Mae refused to take their student loans.  It looked like an attempt to save government schools from lower enrollment, but there were other considerations.

 

Colleges spent a fortune creating a “venue” students would like in order to attract more students.  At the same time, colleges reduced their admission requirements. Consequently, many students were not able to do the work.  So, colleges dumbed-down their curriculum. As college tuition rose and student loan balances loomed with interest charges up to 6%, students scrambled to pay off their loans.


Those students who had degrees from dumbed-down courses didn’t get job offers, because they didn’t really know their subject-matter. 

 

The student who did enter college over the past few years included those who had tuition benefits from past military service. Their tuition was covered and they didn’t have student loans.

 

Many students didn’t understand that the interest charges on student loans began when they left the college, even if they didn’t graduate or find a job.

 

Many of these students who did graduate could not fine professional jobs and had to continue to work in the low-paying retail and service jobs they had when they were students.

 

As the word got out that college would not pay off, many students stopped their college plans.  They price was too high, the demand was down and the supply would shrink.

 

The schools effected included for-profit campus and internet-based colleges like ITT Technical, Sanford Brown, Corinthian Colleges and Phoenix. 

 

In addition, 100 small, tuition-dependent colleges have closed or merged since the 1970s.

https://cihe.neasc.org/information-public/merged-closed-or-previously-accredited-institutions

 

Hundreds of colleges have closed over the past several years, due to high tuition, loss of federal loan availability and other reasons.

https://collegehistorygarden.blogspot.com/2014/11/index-of-colleges-and-universities-that.html


Thousands of schools have closed over the past decades because many of them were formed to fill a need that moved or no longer exists.

Education needs to be a lot cheaper and needs to be internet-based so students can homeschool their college.


Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

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