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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]colleges treat students as a transaction so .. this seems totally reasonable.[/quote]
On the money. This felt like the case at my SLAC, which is mentioned from time to time here. Tons of funding going in, tuition near $90k per year, many anonymous donations, yet the dining hall food is inedible, the student housing is beyond dated, and student life is constantly monitored to protect the school from liability. Case in point: during COVID, students were locked down during big prospective student tour weeks to make sure that they could bring in a good class for the next year while paying no mind to the kids whose tuition was already paid for. It's all about money, and if they can save some, they will even at the expense of student life and campus culture. Administrators treat their roles as stepping stones to get to a cushier job somewhere more desirable.

The professors who have been around long enough were/are by and large pretty good, but the homogeneity of their ultra-progressive lean to the material wasn't the best either. Conservative (not even MAGA conservative, centrist conservative) students were often lambasted for sharing their personal views in most humanities/history/poli sci classes. Before you call me a Trumper, I voted early for Harris already and Biden in 2020, but it's just abnormal that anyone to the right of Progressive doesn't have much of a say. Hard to prepare students to have real-world conversations when you are taught that shaming others' views is a solution. My school's version of a career development program could also have been much more helpful. They did not really help make actual connections with alumni and basically just said to get on LinkedIn and join the school's group of alumni on there. I found that to be pretty pathetic.

I don't think the problem is a lack of capable faculty (in most cases). I just think that schools don't really care much about the college experience and what will become of their students once they're no longer paying tuition (other than hoping that they will donate). [/quote]

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