The ‘Some College, No Credential’ Cohort Grows

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The ‘Some College, No Credential’ Cohort Grows
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/stud...hort-grows

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Once one reaches adulthood, who has time to spend 4+ years completing a degree? The cost is ridiculous with zero guarantee return on your investment. There's a reason WGU is so successful. They broke the college mold which has been broken for ages. College wasn't designed for anyone who has experience or above 24 years old. If you have to attend part time, it can take you 8 years to get a bachelor's degree. That's like an eternity. I think the only way colleges will survive in the future is to join this century with more CBE programs, shorter semesters like Amberton has 4 terms a year which are 10 weeks long, just a lot of change is coming in order to survive and be relevant in 2030 (if they last that long) and beyond. Many colleges really need updated programs as well. There's a college here that has a program in dead languages. WHY? Tuition is over $60K a year at this school. What kind of job will you get with dead languages? Even some staff members thinks that program is ridiculous and waste of money. This school doesn't offer any IT programs. They have finally added a CS major and a data analytics minor. Nothing on cyber security. You can major in Greek and Latin though!

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Once one reaches adulthood, who has time to spend 4+ years completing a degree? The cost is ridiculous with zero guarantee return on your investment. There's a reason WGU is so successful. They broke the college mold which has been broken for ages. College wasn't designed for anyone who has experience or above 24 years old. If you have to attend part time, it can take you 8 years to get a bachelor's degree. That's like an eternity. I think the only way colleges will survive in the future is to join this century with more CBE programs, shorter semesters like Amberton has 4 terms a year which are 10 weeks long, just a lot of change is coming in order to survive and be relevant in 2030 (if they last that long) and beyond. Many colleges really need updated programs as well. There's a college here that has a program in dead languages. WHY? Tuition is over $60K a year at this school. What kind of job will you get with dead languages? Even some staff members thinks that program is ridiculous and waste of money. This school doesn't offer any IT programs. They have finally added a CS major and a data analytics minor. Nothing on cyber security. You can major in Greek and Latin though!

I really hope the generations to come will still be studying dead languages. We need someone to do it just like we need people to dig up archeological sites. It would be really, really sad if the tech we have in our grasp gives our species a future at the cost of sacrificing our past. Or, maybe even worse, if we become so dependent in technology that there will no longer be a single person on earth who actually knows anything because the computers will know things for us.