Isn’t that the truth:
1. If you want to be licensed to teach in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the program takes a minimum of 5 years. If you want an elementary K-12 certification it takes 6 years and a Masters Degree. 4 year college has gone bye bye…
2. My eldest is enrolled in one of the highest rated Architecture programs in the US (and its a public college which really gripes the Ivies… good).. the program has been 5 years since I can remember.
3. Some of the time is ablated by AP and other certification tests that help ablate the requirement for some of the core curriculum survey courses (those boring 300 student drone fests with Zinn’s propaganda blit on US History…etc.) But many schools have stopped taking the the courses above Freshman year level and even set up parallel standards… my son had 2 semesters of 5 hour calculus accepted as AP credit, and still had to take a numb nut Geometry course because the college had no particular valid reason… it just insisted that the course be taken for two semesters. It wasn’t even taught, it was a computerized CBT course that required computer visitation to a lab to take the tests and quizzes.
4. The campus has lost 6 dormitories to academic offices. 30 years ago the student population was roughly 5,000 less than it is now. The number of academic and office buildings has exploded so much that dorm space was taken up by office space for administrators.
Administrative jobs (non-instructional – to run the school’s plant and equipment) are almost impossible to get due to the massive academic requirements laid out, and go unfilled for years. Those administrative jobs that are filled are given to people who have years of academic work, but nothing much to note for actual real world experience with running facilities.
Teaching jobs are doled out like prizes. The over specialization, compartmentalization, departmentalization, school (vs the entire university) structure has exploded. Instead of simple Arts and Sciences, the ego ridden administrations have created new sub groups of schools, Arts and Sciences is now three or four new schools in the university systems, with all new administrators, Directors, Deans, assistant Deans, Deans of Gender, Directors of Political this and Social that…
So, 5,000 more students meant 170% increase in support staff…
And the state school costs roughly $25k a year with room and board… which is off campus because there aren’t enough undergraduate dormitory facilities for the students.
The upshot is that this all comes from borrowed money, funded by the Government. Which is a perfect example as to why universities and colleges run the way they do.
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