Hopefully Trump revokes tax exemptions, subsidies from universities, starts prosecuting Universities and Banks for what they do to students by roping them into insanely predatory loans. The size of the government and it's insane spending/taxes are the greatest threat to national security at this point.
I wonder if he'll target loans. Student loans are a disaster (note that no other country has followed our example), but Trump tends to be close to the financial sector.
Do you have any thoughts about courses of study that are without sustainable employment but have similar debt associated with them to hard sciences and engineering? I'm an uneducated technician without the associated debt having made in excess of $150K for the last 15 years of my career with my expertise and hard work and I feel these sorts of vocations are looked down upon by people who spend 4-8 years in higher education in fringe studies that don't result in sustainable compensation, let alone the ability to repay $100k+ education debt. It seems that we all require experts in Plumbing, electrical, HVAC and mechanical fields and that some of us aren't inclined to a lifetime of study and that we can still fill critical rolls that make life better for everyone.
I have many thoughts on this. First, you're exactly right about the huge and growing need for people in those trades. HVAC, plumbing, woodworking are all seeing their workers age up and the jobs need to be done. Second, young men are starting to enter these fields again, spooked by student debt, and possibly unhappy with the experience of school. Third, a number of people graduate from college with debt and without prospects of jobs which will pay that debt off decently. (I'm one: PhD in literature, still paying off my loans in my 50s). Worse are people who don't graduate, but still have debt.
@@BryanAlexander That would be terrible to go through the process, incur tremendous debt and not even have the diploma to stare at while making those payments. Though if you're investing 8 years towards a degree without employment prospects, a mid course adjustment to a more lucrative course of study might be wise.
@@curtshelp6170 Yes yes yes. It is a terrible thing, one which higher ed is struggling with. Good advising helps, but that's actually hard to do . It's not an exciting job, sometimes an unpaid one, and doesn't scale.
@@BryanAlexander I'm turning 60 next month and I remember exposure to shop classes in high school was instrumental in helping me find my way in life, being unenthusiastic about school. I believe returning shop classes and home ec classes to high school would better prepare certain people to go out into the world than many of the current opportunities available to them. Too many of the highly educated people I've worked with had limited skills to help them execute the theories their minds were full of.
Higher Ed has to create students that can think critically. Anyone that is able to be tricked into defending terrorist are simple minded at best esp in an age that one can google facts.
Confusion reigns because elite-heads are filled with ideology and they lack perspective. Every stage of the promotion process for administrators winnows out and narrows the pool, resulting in blinkered views that are nearly identical and rigidly conform. The same process consistently functions to screen out data that is irrelevant to administrative tasks. As a craftsman scenario builder, Bryan, you were apparently shocked by the lack of breadth and scope, but the conversation accurately reflects the views (or LACK of views) of this particular "thought community". Some years ago, the results of cognitive stratification among peak corporate officers was studied. "It's Lovely at the Top" (2015) was the title, and it aptly sums up this problem. But now -- and for the same reasons -- uncertainty characterizes top administrators. The key, I think, is to look at this as the result of long-standing organizational and institutional dynamics. As Hannan and Friedman pointed out in their famous 1984 paper on structural inertia, the reasons for success continue on, regardless.
Nice vid Bryan
Love the kitty :). Thanks for sharing.
She gracefully acknowledges your kind recognition.
Hopefully Trump revokes tax exemptions, subsidies from universities, starts prosecuting Universities and Banks for what they do to students by roping them into insanely predatory loans. The size of the government and it's insane spending/taxes are the greatest threat to national security at this point.
I wonder if he'll target loans. Student loans are a disaster (note that no other country has followed our example), but Trump tends to be close to the financial sector.
I can’t imagine Harris winning. What a nightmare this administration has been.
I think she had a chance, if a small one. But Trump campaigned brilliantly. And the assassination attempted helped him.
Do you have any thoughts about courses of study that are without sustainable employment but have similar debt associated with them to hard sciences and engineering?
I'm an uneducated technician without the associated debt having made in excess of $150K for the last 15 years of my career with my expertise and hard work and I feel these sorts of vocations are looked down upon by people who spend 4-8 years in higher education in fringe studies that don't result in sustainable compensation, let alone the ability to repay $100k+ education debt. It seems that we all require experts in Plumbing, electrical, HVAC and mechanical fields and that some of us aren't inclined to a lifetime of study and that we can still fill critical rolls that make life better for everyone.
I have many thoughts on this.
First, you're exactly right about the huge and growing need for people in those trades. HVAC, plumbing, woodworking are all seeing their workers age up and the jobs need to be done.
Second, young men are starting to enter these fields again, spooked by student debt, and possibly unhappy with the experience of school.
Third, a number of people graduate from college with debt and without prospects of jobs which will pay that debt off decently. (I'm one: PhD in literature, still paying off my loans in my 50s). Worse are people who don't graduate, but still have debt.
@@BryanAlexander That would be terrible to go through the process, incur tremendous debt and not even have the diploma to stare at while making those payments. Though if you're investing 8 years towards a degree without employment prospects, a mid course adjustment to a more lucrative course of study might be wise.
@@curtshelp6170 Yes yes yes. It is a terrible thing, one which higher ed is struggling with. Good advising helps, but that's actually hard to do . It's not an exciting job, sometimes an unpaid one, and doesn't scale.
@@BryanAlexander I'm turning 60 next month and I remember exposure to shop classes in high school was instrumental in helping me find my way in life, being unenthusiastic about school. I believe returning shop classes and home ec classes to high school would better prepare certain people to go out into the world than many of the current opportunities available to them. Too many of the highly educated people I've worked with had limited skills to help them execute the theories their minds were full of.
Interesting topic. Thanks for sharing.
I had a bit of trouble hearing the audio however.
I do need to get that mic working.
Closed captions helped a lot :).
Higher Ed has to create students that can think critically. Anyone that is able to be tricked into defending terrorist are simple minded at best esp in an age that one can google facts.
The thing about critical thinking is that nearly everyone agrees we should teach it. The trick is that nobody agrees on what it is.
Confusion reigns because elite-heads are filled with ideology and they lack perspective.
Every stage of the promotion process for administrators winnows out and narrows the pool, resulting in blinkered views that are nearly identical and rigidly conform. The same process consistently functions to screen out data that is irrelevant to administrative tasks. As a craftsman scenario builder, Bryan, you were apparently shocked by the lack of breadth and scope, but the conversation accurately reflects the views (or LACK of views) of this particular "thought community".
Some years ago, the results of cognitive stratification among peak corporate officers was studied. "It's Lovely at the Top" (2015) was the title, and it aptly sums up this problem.
But now -- and for the same reasons -- uncertainty characterizes top administrators.
The key, I think, is to look at this as the result of long-standing organizational and institutional dynamics. As Hannan and Friedman pointed out in their famous 1984 paper on structural inertia, the reasons for success continue on, regardless.