University of Lynchburg Transformation

[FireMedic_Philosopher]

I hate seeing any legitimate institution suffer for any reason.

I wonder:
1. Does every tertiary institution of learning have to call itself a university?
2. What is the right amount of programs of study?
3. At what point does the tertiary education market place become oversaturated? The Commonwealth of Virginia and the greater Lynchburg area itself are a case in point.
4. Will the number of distance learning only tertiary institutions displace the number of traditional bricks and mortar ones. 

I'm praying for and wishing the best for everyone involved with the University of Lynchburg.


https://sites.google.com/lynchburg.edu/t...ation/home

1) Colleges are institutions that offer only undergraduate degrees. Universities offer graduate degrees.

2) The right amount of degrees would be any number for the area, such that schools are not competing over students. In an ideal world each school finds a niche of areas to specialize in, such that each school is "known" for certain fields.

3) An area is oversaturated once schools compete for students in any given degree/major.

4) I don't have the quote in front of me, but someone... I think either the US Dept of Ed, or else US News and World Report, claimed that the number of online classes offered nationwide outnumbered in-person classes back in the 2010-2012 timeframe. So, basically online classes /sections have outnumbered in-person learning since before COVID. . . I am guessing whenever blackboard, brightspace, and the other platforms came out.

It is "bad" enough that my local community college now REQUIRES all instructors to offer an online "section" of every single class offered by the school. (labs not included)...

This last May saw two small colleges within an hour of my home graduate their last cohorts and close for good. They couldn't make ends meet without enough residential students to pay the bills.