<story><title>Income-sharing agreements let students trade future earnings for investment</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-09/college-grads-sell-stakes-in-themselves-to-wall-street</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>Absolutely not, at least not without making college &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt; more difficult. Otherwise it is just subsidizing adult daycare.&lt;p&gt;Many people do not belong in college and learn next to nothing, but go because they&amp;#x27;re shoo&amp;#x27;ed along into it and the universities are in on the joke, and in on the money-making, and undergoing a drastic reduction of standards as a result.&lt;p&gt;Some data on just how bad higher ed is getting, from 2017: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@simon.sarris&amp;#x2F;higher-education-erodes-a7c9983692e0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@simon.sarris&amp;#x2F;higher-education-erodes-a7c...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>velcrovan</author><text>Make the college free and provide students with a living stipend. Return higher education subsidies (and tax brackets) to their 1950s levels. Join the rest of the developed world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rchaud</author><text>Many people also do not belong in an Engineering program, and that&amp;#x27;s why the 101 classes are designed to weed people out. That system already exists in higher education. At my (liberal arts) school, we have a two-strike policy. Strike 1 is when you have a sub 2.0 GPA in a semester; that gets you an academic suspension for 1 semester. You can rejoin only if you retake similar courses elsewhere and meet a minimum grade requirement.&lt;p&gt;If you are allowed to re-enroll, you have 1 strike left. Another sub-2.0 GPA and you&amp;#x27;re gone.&lt;p&gt;If the US brought such a generation-transforming policy like this to the table, the easiest part of it would be to set that minimum standard across all participating schools. Most likely already have something close to this in place now.</text></comment>
<story><title>Income-sharing agreements let students trade future earnings for investment</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-09/college-grads-sell-stakes-in-themselves-to-wall-street</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>Absolutely not, at least not without making college &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt; more difficult. Otherwise it is just subsidizing adult daycare.&lt;p&gt;Many people do not belong in college and learn next to nothing, but go because they&amp;#x27;re shoo&amp;#x27;ed along into it and the universities are in on the joke, and in on the money-making, and undergoing a drastic reduction of standards as a result.&lt;p&gt;Some data on just how bad higher ed is getting, from 2017: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@simon.sarris&amp;#x2F;higher-education-erodes-a7c9983692e0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@simon.sarris&amp;#x2F;higher-education-erodes-a7c...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>velcrovan</author><text>Make the college free and provide students with a living stipend. Return higher education subsidies (and tax brackets) to their 1950s levels. Join the rest of the developed world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RosanaAnaDana</author><text>1: Make college much more difficult.
2: Allow people to enter it and fail. People need to be made aware that just because they passed their undergraduate work, they really aren&amp;#x27;t as smart as they think they are.</text></comment>