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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges and universities can make significant reductions in expenses by modifying what and how they deliver education.  They should cut so many of the A to Z majors and minors that don't offer gainful employment to their graduates.  Many general Ed requirements of the first year or first two years can be delivered online/webinar style.  They can bring the students to campus for short stints for intensive labs, group projects, tests, presentations, etc. (like they do for executive MBA programs, etc.)  This will shrink the physical size, faculty and support staff, maintenance expense, etc.  In short, they can operate on a much smaller annual budgets.

In fact, some colleges/universities can specialize in lab based majors and offer immersion type intensive short duration labs, say for two weeks.  Other colleges could rent these facilities and faculty for their students.  Throughout the academic year, such lab based colleges will be functioning offering their facilities for a set of colleges on reservation basis.

This model of education delivery will do away with college sports, athlete recruiting, large campus sizes, high fixed costs.  It will significantly reduce per credit hour tuition, eliminate fee for so many non-academic expenses, total cost of obtaining an undergraduate degree.  Also, this model will allow students to have flexible schedules with differing workloads to allow part-time jobs, study from home, etc.  The colleges, instead of being physically pinned to a geographic location, will have wide reach to attract students who live in far away places.

This model will clearly be a disruptor of traditional higher education delivery model and will wipe out at least 2000 to 3000 of the existing colleges/universities.   Make higher education more affordable and more accessible (even to people living in rural and sparsely populated areas), enhance education level of the population.  It could increase the overall quality of education delivery.  There is absolutely no reason why in this modern age colleges should still follow the education delivery model of centuries ago.[/quote]

Bump.[/quote]

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