On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Michael Smith
<mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 19:37:38 -0700
Jim Devine <
jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> 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.