Originally Posted by Guest

Things You'll Learn About Colleges From Watching The 'Ivory Tower' Documentary

If you can find a way to watch this movie I don't think you will be disappointed. It is upsetting. I take issue with Trump calling the military a mess but I think it's fair to call colleges a mess.

Since all of my kids went to college and worked very hard at it, I thought I knew what college life is now like. It seemed a lot like what I experienced. I was wrong.

One of the reasons colleges are so expensive are the amenities they offer. Colleges claim they have to offer swimming pools and rock climbing walls to compete for students.

Not so many professors get tenure so they compete for students and need to be popular. Kids being kids choose the easiest ones. How does that work in the long run?

It would be easy to fix all of this but sounds impossible to actually do it. If they make college affordable without fixing what's wrong it will only get worse.

And how do you fix it without more government interference or mandates? Free enterprise created this mess.

Originally Posted by Guest

For many years I recruited both Undergraduate students and MBA students from America`s most respected colleges .
About half of the schools I visited year after year and again still very respected colleges were turning out young men and women who were completely " Institutionally Programmed ". Further they lacked any basic background for the type of employment they were seeking .
Frankly their education was so lacking that their very expensive tuition was a complete waste .

Fortunately there were still about 50% of the colleges that were turning out well educated students with solid foundational skills . However these tended to be Universities which specialized in a " Quantitative " education such as engineering , math etc . Examples would be Carnegie Mellon and The University of Chicago , Northwestern and The University of Pennsylvania .