College enrollment is falling. Instead, high school grads are opting for Mike Rowe’s “Dirty Jobs” or some other future that doesn’t involve amassing as much debt as a mortgage and heading into a career that barely pays the bills. In an article for The Guardian, Erum Salam notes colleges’ complaints about FAFSA and not enough student loan bailouts by Joe Biden, but these answers are excuses. The real problem for colleges is the value proposition is quickly losing its appeal. The market is punishing colleges for what they have become, which is woke-centered diploma generation machines that add little value to the students who attend. Salam just barely makes note of the market’s role, writing:
Park noted that there’s also “the competing pressures of the labor market” for prospective students to contend with.
“As work becomes more attractive to some students or individuals, it’s a lot to give up not working and that way to help support your family. And so that’s something that also might be at play,” she said.
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