The Mighty Obbop jumps up, aquiver with unadulterated passion, wildly screeching in a most horrendous manner.....
here in the cultural backwater of Omyhaw Nebraska, over yonder 'cross the holler from equally backwater upper midwest quasi-rural areas and small towns losing residents to them thar BIG cities scattered across the barren tornado-swept blizzard-ridden plains there apparently, on a subjective level, has been an increase in colleges advertising on the TV thing.
But, hereabouts, those colleges are mostly privae colleges, for-profit institutions, that coerce the unknowing into enrolling.
One TV ad shows some blonde hussy (she reminds me of a gal spending too much time on street corners) telling the viewer that they, too, can earn vast sums creating computer games. While the blonde babbles two idiotic males go bonkers playing a computer game.
No mention of the complexity of learning all that is needed to become hireable. Definitely NO mention of the very limited number of jobs in the industry nor the intense competition for those jobs.
Another for-profit college wants you to live the good life in Arizona while becoming a famous chef. No mention of the recent articles that can be found here and there about the glut of chefs on the market....that many graduates of cooking schools end up working for so-so wages at some chain restaurant.
Too bad more folks do not do some basic research into demand for career areas. The Occupational Outlook Handbook, available on-line, is a good place to start though far from being the drfinitive most reliable data source.
Read an article awhile back about how these private colleges grew exponentially at the end of World War 2 when millions of GIs entered private life with the GI Bill dollars ready to be spent.
And, for general principals.... tuition does not begin to cover the cost of running higher-education institutions...well, at least the public schools.
Private colleges, other than for-profit schools, tend to be associated with some outside group where funds are drawn from. A local small private college receives funds from the Lutheran church. Some schools receive huge endowments from alumni that helps keep tuition down.
And, a more complicated area... public and private colleges receiving largesse from the federal government....well, the transfer of YOUR money via taxation to education where too many of those dollars, in my opinion, allow extravagent lifestyles for the educational bureaucrats.....but this area is far too complicated to cover here.
