How other systems are responding

How are other systems dealing with all the complications?

As stated previously, some accredited universities got a jump on the online learning trend (such as ASU's 100 masters degrees).

Generally, other institutions are looking at ways to discount tuition or shorten the overall time it takes to graduate.

Constantly changing legislation, program cuts and loan caps have prompted some schools to reduce tuition as much as 50%, with more expected in the coming years.

Then there are the newest programs opting for programs only requiring 90 credits for on-line, accelerating graduation - granting a bachelor’s degree in just 3 years. This idea started at BYU two years ago, and is now or will soon be available at over 69 institutions.

The most drastic response is making cuts.

Athletic Progragms

Administration, Amenities and

Added Fees

Reducing amenities have become the focus for other institutions,

with the larges cuts happening to athletic programs.

Montana State University Billings cut it's men's soccer program.

Loyola Marymount cut it's men’s and women’s track & field, men’s and women’s rowing, men’s cross country, and women’s swimming because of NIL rights.

Linwood University cut men’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, men’s tennis, men’s indoor and outdoor track & field teams, women’s field hockey, men’s wrestling, women’s gymnastics, and men’s and women’s cycling (as well as 9 staff positions.)

Other schools are cutting out all of their athletic programs all together, like St. Francis Brooklyn.

However, football has been at the forefront of this discussion.

High school football haven been having problems attracting enough players to keep the game safe. A few programs are shifting to 8 player games to keep scholarship opportunities open, but across the board, interest in football is waning.

Program costs have been increasing... coaching and support staff, equipment, travel, fundraising and insurance. Two new costs hitting athletics are the Name Image Likeness payments as well as the increased scouting costs and competition as the pool of players keeps shrinking.

Type "college administrative bloat" and "college amenities arms race" into google to get a laundry list of how programs and on campus extras were added during the previous years, and now imagine it in reverse.

Programs and services are being cut, along with staffing and instructor numbers. Here's a page listing the layoffs over the last two months at eight different schools.

The schools that haven't made cuts have stayed afloat due to tuition increases and mandatory fees.

More increases are coming if we don't do anything. It's part of why I'm proposing FLUX.

Is it a perfect proposition? No, but it provides a new source of revenue to the schools, students don't pay fees on those classes, and it offers new certifications and degrees you can't find anywhere else (hopefully attracting more students to the system.)

I'm bringing these things to people's attention so they are aware that the situation will probably only get worse if we don't try an alternative.

I'm Lori Lane, and I approve this message. My campaign is entirely funded and run by me.

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