And you can actually have good conversation

But you still have the Voat issue eventually. And it's still empty.

I've seen more alt right people on twitter and I don't use twitter

Network effects are a bitch.

In more than 140 characters

Does anyone know if we've actually seen a proper established university collapse?

Not as far as im aware rye

Yes.

idk, but didn't tim just do a vid on evergreen...

I think it was 17 that closed last year.

I'm watching it.

wait what

I'm wondering what that looks like...

17 colleges out?

Yeah, the whole sector is in deep trouble.

see this whole 'get woke, go broke" tells me they are not controlling the norms

y'know...

It's mostly small colleges no one has heard of though.

I just had a laugh at that, pratel.

try as they might

Ironically, the more right-leaning ones.

I really shouldn't have.

The one affiliated with Bernie Sander's wife wnet bankrupt and closed. That was a minor controversy actually as there were some sketchy loans approved near the end of it all.

Yeah, I'm wondering about the colleges with sprawling campuses.

Ones with dormatories.

That would include the ones that were closed.

The big state schools aren't closing, they have too much grip on state politicians and too much money.

But the small privates in weird corners of the country? Collapsing at an alarming rate.

Harvard thinks there will be half as many Unis in 2030 as there are now.

I have to wonder how bad they can hurt before the politicians call it though...

Forever.

What do you think "free college for all" does?

destroys us.

devalues college to bascially being a high school diploma

Also correct.

lowers the quality, and creates a giant burden on the taxpayers

Tbh at some point the political parties have to be upended, on one side or the other

Eliminates competition between colleges.

They should be, Beemann

But it's a 'You First' standoff.

There's too many "this exists because why would politicians vote against it" scenarios