Yeah, because universities are getting to be barely able to justify the cost for people to attend. You can get a tech school degree for 12k and in 1-2 years make 50-80k, or go to a university and pay 50k and still probably make 50-80k after 4 years.
I’m all for people getting a higher education, but we’ve been having this discussion on a few of my university discussion posts; if you apply Maslow’s hierarchy for needs, safety and physiological needs are prioritized before intellectual needs. Shit is expensive now.
And I know a couple of people that work at the university system, most of the 216 job cuts mentioned are faculty (not administrators), but if there are less educators, why are there not less people running the educators needed? Will there eventually just be an university bot that a room full of administrators run?
Sorry, I get a little heated when I see behaviors like this. I wish the government positions that affect these decisions could see the long-term benefits of education instead of the short-term gain of “let’s just cut the budget to make it through this year.”