On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 19:37:38 -0700 > Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Limiting to only those who can pay won't work for universities. They > need > > > to fill the seats > > > economists call this "price discrimination," and say that it's more > > efficient. I have my doubts. > > Efficient in what sense? The boffins of the Credentialling Sector > think it works for them. Who are we to tell them how to run their > business? > > Colleges and jails still seem to be big growth industries. Everybody > apparently thinks they're really important. > i'm pretty glad i got to go to college. and grad school. less excited about the thought of prison, but maybe there's something about prison i don't understand? or maybe i just need the right one. also not so sure colleges are growth, right now. many seem very much on the verge of demise. i would not be at all surprised to see whole swatch of small liberal arts colleges, and probably a bunch of comprehensives competing for the same nursing and ed students, go under over the next couple of years.
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