St Francis-Brooklyn Cuts Entire Athletics Program

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The Strongest And Weakest Colleges In America — Behind Forbes 2022 Financial Grades

As the financial health of most universities goes from bad to worse, a little-known nonprofit college in California is gushing returns and expanding nationwide by cribbing from the for-profit playbook.

www.forbes.com

This should give you a huge indicator for who may be next: Rider, Jacksonville, and St. Peter’s.

The St. Peter's Women's Basketball Team went 0-30 this season. Ouch!

 

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The Strongest And Weakest Colleges In America — Behind Forbes 2022 Financial Grades

As the financial health of most universities goes from bad to worse, a little-known nonprofit college in California is gushing returns and expanding nationwide by cribbing from the for-profit playbook.

www.forbes.com

This should give you a huge indicator for who may be next: Rider, Jacksonville, and St. Peter’s.

Thaks for the link. The top listing is dubious for financial health, which makes me wonder about the bottom list. I doubt Bard College is in trouble, and it likely never will be due to proximity to New York, but they got hit because of major administrative screwups which cratered their budget. That's far different than schools that are drowning.

Have a look at Pomona College in the best of list. That school has an incredible amount of money in its endowment per student. Far healthier than many ranked above it. And any list that doesn't have Harvard #1 is dubious. Just because you spend a lot of money per student, that shouldn't be held against you. And just because you spend very little per student, that doesn't make you efficient. You're always trading the future for the present.

 

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I think a well-constructed Associates Degree is sufficient for a solid career in many office jobs. Colleges are selling kids useless degrees, and some of the worst offenders are the more prestigious colleges.

Been saying this forever. The cost has skyrocketed unlike anything else. It's a broken model.

 

[UCTitleTown]

There was a great interview with the men's basketball coach in one of the papers. He said he'd just convinced several key players to stay for their 5th years because hopes were high for next year, and then a couple days later without notice the administration abandons athletics. The players are now scrambling late to find new homes.

It seems that the root of the school's troubles is the deal to sell their old campus building falling through leaving them on the hook for both campuses simultaneously. Really crazy that they could allow that to happen. Sports are the fall guy for the administration's screw up.

 

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Been saying this forever. The cost has skyrocketed unlike anything else. It's a broken model.

I also see no issue in going to technical schools. College isn't for anyone and tbh, you can make a whole lot more in the technical field than you could with a degree in history from a 4 year college. We have a neighbor whose kid decided to go to EC Goodwin for HS instead of our town HS because he knew what field he wanted to get into and he struggled in some school areas. He's already had an apprenticeship lined up and he's only in HS. College used to be the next step after HS for everyone. It shouldn't be that way anymore and many kids are seeing that due to the insane cost.

 

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I also see no issue in going to technical schools. College isn't for anyone and tbh, you can make a whole lot more in the technical field than you could with a degree in history from a 4 year college. We have a neighbor whose kid decided to go to EC Goodwin for HS instead of our town HS because he knew what field he wanted to get into and he struggled in some school areas. He's already had an apprenticeship lined up and he's only in HS. College used to be the next step after HS for everyone. It shouldn't be that way anymore and many kids are seeing that due to the insane cost.

There is such a shortage of tool and die makers now due to retirement and the mistake of cutting trade school majors (Kaynor cut machining center training about 10 years ago, I think) that many command the same salaries as VPs at companies. Facts.