WGU Layoffs

[dfrecore]

Your comment about how colleges are businesses is apt, but also sad because at one time, a university education was NOT about such things but rather - umm - learning and umm - oh yes! "Critical Thinking and Reasoning Skills" - which now seems to be a thing of the past.  I get it: the world is digital now and much, if not all, of life, is quite capable of taking place online now.

Just because a university is a business does not preclude it also being a place where people learn things.  Those are 2 different things.  So you can be a poorly run university where people learn a lot and then you have to close down because someone at the top wasn't treating it as a business; or you can be a well-run university where people learn a lot and can continue to do so because someone at the top realizes that it needs to be run as a business (see St. Mary's College in the SF Bay Area - a women's college which is very highly regarded and yet is going out of business, probably for various reasons but also because they don't see it as a business that needs to be well-run to survive).

And none of this has to do with the world being digital (although a school with NO online options probably isn't going to do real well in this day and age either).