I don’t deny that there will continue to be college closings, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing. I just wish that it would be educationally ineffective schools that would be closing.
There are schools that do a great job of educating their students…taking non-academic superstars in as incoming freshmen and then graduating a bunch of academically strong seniors. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to suss out which schools provide a great education versus those that are diploma mills doing anything they can to keep the money flowing in. I think if there was greater transparency about the quality of the education provided, then students and families could be making better-informed decisions, rather than depending on the strength of marketing departments (which I sometimes think is not the strength of some educationally strong institutions).
As an example of how educational quality might be able to be shared, I’m going to quote myself from a different thread: