For a variety of reasons – technology, competition from online, financial issues – many of these small colleges probably won't make it to the 2030's.
Key problem: feckless administrators at colleges like @MariettaCollege over-react to short-term PR issues created by tiny handfuls of woke activists, & under-estimate how much credibility they're burning in the long term once free speech twitter gets wind of their cowardice.https://twitter.com/sbkaufman/status/1236111733216829440 …
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The internet will probably do to colleges what it did to newspapers: large elite institutions will survive, but many smaller ones will struggle, then fail. Possible a huge opportunity to rebuild after that ...
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Applies to so much. Colleges, newspapers, TV channels, governments.
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@President_Ruud is all about sports, not academics, look at his twitter feed ... -
The college has an abysmal 66% graduation rate ...
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Exactly, we need to support FIRE
@glukianoff in their efforts to fight for free academic speech.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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A problem more generally. Companies ofen seem to wildly overreact to what shapes up to be two days of bad press. Perhaps this is what you get when you specifically employ people to look after PR (also, this line of work does not typically attract the sharpest tools in the shed).
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Maybe with time, all the fired people will be able to gather and open their own university
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And they enable bullies
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