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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is a definitely a crisis but some of what is mentioned in posts just above mine will simply be a return to the university experience that we all had (and survived just fine).

We didn't had a single crappy gym (as such I jogged for exercise). We didn't have endless choices in the dining hall. There wasn't a comprehensive shuttle service (I always took the city bus and then subway to the airport whereas now at my college there is an hourly bus). We didn't have air conditioning in the dorms.  I could go on an on. Kids would survive all of this.

Now I agree that it's deeply troubling that they may not have jobs when they graduate or professors to each them.  But if their college experience is bare bones in other ways they'll be fine. [/quote]

Except we are full pay and paying a lot more than back in the 90s.

I’d prefer a discount rather than them just cutting services to be honest.[/quote]

This is the problem colleges are facing. Back in the 1960s–90s, the income distribution was a lot flatter. Nowadays kids from families who can comfortably afford full pay have never lived like this. These are kids who have never shared a bathroom before, not even with a sibling. College already feels like a slum to this shrinking number of most valuable families. And yes, that’s because they’re insanely rich and out of touch. But colleges need them. [/quote]

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