'Losing A Generation': Fall College Enrollment Plummets For 1st-Year Students

[Cheerio]

As with any life cycle, adaptability is key. Greeks are well-prepared to weather this long-predicted baby bust as well as the unpredicted pandemic. We will find solutions. We have plans.

Why all the dramatics from Mr Shapiro? He seems to want to complain of lowered expectations of students and more limited access to higher education rather than say collegiate curriculums are changing with the times.

Machines have long been taking over functions formerly accomplished thru jobs held by citizens of the world. New formulas and processes often mean civilization is PROGRESSING, and people need to ADAPT instead of cry foul because the old way no longer works.

Having more free time because we have freed ourselves from the burden of jobs now done by machines, what could we be doing to improve ourselves and mankind with all that free time?

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

Having more free time because we have freed ourselves from the burden of jobs now done by machines, what could we be doing to improve ourselves and mankind with all that free time?

Apparently, from the people that I know, watch Cat Videos....

[carnation]

Many students I know were angry that they were paying full tuition to essentially teach themselves. I don't blame them. My 2 youngest sons had to take advanced foreign language courses online and hardly learned a thing.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by carnation

Many students I know were angry that they were paying full tuition to essentially teach themselves.

It's this.

It's not necessarily a generation, but I am seeing a good bit of the Fall 2020 freshman class ask "WHY I AM I PAYING TO GO TO XYZ UNIVERSITY AND TEACH MYSELF WHEN I CAN GO TO XYZ COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND ALSO TEACH MYSELF FOR LESS MONEY?"

Then they transfer.

Especially if you paid and planned to go somewhere out of state and are now online.

Same for their parents. Let's say you paid for Molly to go to Beach State, got her a cool Beach State beachfront apartment back when things were slightly better, and she is now stuck inside and calling you every night stressed about teaching herself Calc. Your first suggestion after a semester of COVID is "HOW ABOUT COMING HOME TO SNOWBANK COMMUNITY COLLEGE WHERE YOU CAN STAY WITH US AND TEACH YOURSELF FOR LESS MONEY?"