On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > 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. > > sorry -- i was looking for whole *swath*, not whole swatch. note to self: no responding on email lists before second cup of coffee.
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