Aram Zucker-Scharff

Poll: Prestigious Colleges Won’t Make You Happier In Life Or Work:

A Gallup survey suggests the factors that should be guiding decisions on selecting a college are not selectivity or prestige, but cost of attendance, great teaching and deep learning — in that order.

No one cares where you went to college. Even [future] you. 

“College debt also has a big impact, on the negative side. Only 2 percent of those with $20,000 to $40,000 in undergraduate loans reported they were “thriving.” That’s pretty troubling, since $29,400 is the national average for the 7 in 10 students who borrow. ­”

The Adjunct Revolt: How Poor Professors Are Fighting Back:

“College is no longer creating a critically-thinking citizenry who can participate actively in a democracy.”

Why? Adjuncts professors now constitute 76.4 percent of all U.S. faculty across Higher Education institutions. The majority of those adjuncts live below the poverty line.

How can we expect the homeless or hungry with no free time and no job security to properly educated the youth of tomorrow?

“We have lost an entire generation of scholarship because of this.”

“We moved away from a faculty-centric university to one focused on serving students … To attract students, universities need amenities to keep up in an arms race with other institutions,”

More High School Grads Decide College Isn’t Worth It:

As colleges put themselves deeper in debt on the assumption of increasing enrollment (and increase tuition accordingly), enrollment begins to drop. Put a pin in it, here’s where the pressure increases on the higher ed bubble and the pop begins. 

Universities are soon to get an education on just how much the market can bear.