Or prioritize entry into oversubscribed classes by ability (as measured by test scores).

Colleges only hire administrators. The faculty is fixed

Even easier: larger classes

The root cause is the lack of applying market forces to funding departments and and new professors and labs. So majors with low demand are drastically overstaffed and those in high demand have to play games like this. It’s just a massive failure of the Chancellor and Provost that it came to this.

This is an stupid idea, with a natural occurrence in stupid and centralized places like Cuba. UCSD for the L.

It’s hard to see the UCSD news in the feed while also seeing CS PhDs talk about how hard it is to find an academic job 😭

Just make the lectures virtual.

This is why for-profit colleges exist. If students want to take math at night, public school says “Sorry, no one wants to work at night, plus we can’t cut the Japanese studies department.” UoP hires a math teacher. Lots of veterans miss out on publics over this kind of thing.

I have problems with the elite colleges, but this is key one: The nation has grown 2x in the last 30 years, but most top colleges are still the same size. We should focus resources on the schools that are excellent and willing to grow enrollment and majors to meet demand.