BeepCollege core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself
OwOarchistAt some level, college is supposed to be about teaching yourself.
That said, professors are supposed to help.
Is that why it’s 10s of thousands of dollars, or more?
Nah, that particular part of it is because of:
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Maintaining college’s role as a personal economics gatekeeper, keeping the poor and unprivileged away from the good jobs.
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Administrators deciding that administration needs more money, causing incredible levels of administrative bloat.
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To some degree, financial aid (both scholarships and subsidized loans) enables increased prices because it allows them to increase prices more without affecting demand as much as it otherwise would.
- the first one i can see, the tenures arnt leaving til they croak, so alot of people tyring to becom faculty cant find jobs, plus the private industry is only slightly better, it also gatekeeps BS/MS majors form the industry, because companies would mostly hire the profs and make them do most of the work, rather hire more lower level workers for research labs.
Professor here, maybe 1% of my students ask for help. About 15 % don’t show up to class to a course run around manuscript discussion, do poorly. Why bother? Save tuition and stay home, because even if they do get a piece of paper after 4 years they will fail in any professional environment with those habits.
when they arnt doing thier on research projects, which is most of thier time to. i also notice they are forced by the univesity to be “Advisors” too, which is a big mistake, as some of them are pretty arrogant and protective of thier reputability, they dont want competition in the future for some reason, and alot of them give very bad advice.