Time to subsidize 100% college educations for public universities. ...

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5. Indeed, and so to some extent, online programs are making it worse

For example, our online courses are shorter and less rigorous (having roughly 2/3 to 3/4 of the content of a regular semester long face-to-face course. As much as I have thought about paring my courses down, and I have done some paring over the years, I can't imagine how I would remove between 1/4 and 1/3 of the content from the course. I have already reduced some of the content to make way for more experiential learning activities, which are important for learning.

Over the last decade we have bent over backwards to find ways to better engage students so as to retain them and see them to graduation. We have hired more administrators to "lead" these initiatives and to bring in more private funding, since the state is too republican and too cheap to kick in more money. And yet, enrollment continues to decline overall as enrollment for online classes is increasing, fewer students want the traditional face-to-face college experience because the online option is quicker and easier. I wonder how long we will survive.