650,000 jobs

[Alpha]

Apparently there were 650,000 jobs lost in higher education recently
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-brut...-last-year

[ss20ts]

Doesn't surprise me at all. Many schools have cut back on course offerings because enrollment is down. Several schools are on the verge of permanently shutting down. There's a college in my town that has made agreements with 2 other nearby colleges to accept their students if they shutdown. Those 2 schools have been hurting for years. They're VERY small schools. I don't know how they've survived this long with 400 students at one and one with about 1700 students spread out over campus and several adult learning facilities. Once you leave this area, no one has heard of either college. One has ties to Wells Fargo Bank and still is unknown.

With remote learning and online classes taking off, I expect to see even fewer positions at colleges. I expect a lot of layoffs. If you can teach 100 students online in 1 class then you don't need 4 sections of the class on campus. 

[dfrecore]

I don't have access to read the article (and don't want to sign up for it), but I'm hoping that PLENTY of these jobs are administrative ones. Honestly, colleges are so top-heavy with admin, they have to charge ridiculous amounts to attend. If schools are forced to get rid of the junk-jobs at the top end to continue on in a more lean way, so be it - should have never gotten that way in the first place.

Unfortunately, many will continue on with this nonsense and cut teachers instead. Because...some students will still choose schools that are filled with idiots I guess.

[LevelUP]

I don't have access to read the article

Easy way to get around those paywalls.

https://archive.vn/yb3Gq

[Alpha]

Ithaca College cuts faculty/majors
Ithaca College to cut more than 100 faculty members and more than 20 majors and programs | WSTM (cnycentral.com)

[ss20ts]

Ithaca College cuts faculty/majors
Ithaca College to cut more than 100 faculty members and more than 20 majors and programs | WSTM (cnycentral.com)

I like the kid who graduated last year saying the deficit isn't much and not enough to justify these cuts. Amazing. A college graduate who doesn't know what a deficit is and how much $24,000,000 is. Poor kid paid an arm and leg to attend that school, too. 

[dfrecore]

Ithaca College cuts faculty/majors
Ithaca College to cut more than 100 faculty members and more than 20 majors and programs | WSTM (cnycentral.com)

Colleges SHOULD cut problems on a regular basis.  Anything that doesn't have good student outcomes, doesn't have enough students enrolling each year to keep open, etc.  If they never cut programs, they'd still have majors that didn't lead to jobs, and wouldn't have majors like Cybersecurity or Data Science.  They need to continually update their offerings to keep up with the times.

[ss20ts]

There's a college here that has a minor in dead languages. Why??? They don't even have enough students in the program to have a full time professor. The professor rotates between 3 colleges. Why does any college have this program? Great you learned about dead languages. Ok so what skills do you have and are useful in the job market of today? This program is now under review along with some others because of Covid cutbacks. I'm like you needed a pandemic to realize that this wasn't a great way to spend $$$$? Anyone can learn a dead language. Buy a book. Watch YouTube. But to go to a school where tuition is over $60K a year and learn about dead languages is just insane.

[rachel83az]

A degree in dead languages might be useful for certain archaeology positions. But there are probably only a handful of these positions in the whole world.

[ss20ts]

A degree in dead languages might be useful for certain archaeology positions. But there are probably only a handful of these positions in the whole world.

It's not even a degree. It's a minor. This is a liberal arts school. They have a lot of programs under review now because they will have 1 or 2 students in the program. Why do you have a program for so few students? They don't have business degrees, IT degrees, etc. In good times they have about 2500 students. Now it's around 2000. I have no idea how they have survived having so many programs with a handful of students. I can't imagine they're the only college like this either. With Ithaca College dropping 20 programs, you can see how much can really be trimmed away at many colleges.