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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Why do universities need more students than they did in the past? By reducing enrolment through higher standards, wouldn’t they also reduce costs?
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I don't know if the need is material or spiritual, but the model has changed as such to make the student's impression the most important thing. Which is not altogether negative, it just makes being a hard ass with your grading more difficult, because the student feed back forms will say that you are an awful professor with un realistic expectations. The admin doesn't read this as "good our school will be more prestigious because it is more difficult" they read it as when word gets out on the internet about this enrollment in this class is going to suffer, we should intervein.