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This public university just announced massive layoffs. Is all higher ed at risk? (therealnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I expect college to get a lot cheaper as the available student pool doesn't recover from the millennial echo boom.

“The market will self-correct,” I tell myself, despite all evidence to the contrary (the total lack of an incentive for monopoly capital to lower prices in a bourgeois dictatorship). “The market will self-correct. The market cannot fail us. Only we can fail the market.”