Totally agree with you and others about the cost and milking the students.
Even back in the 80s, I worked two jobs to get through college. I can't even imagine it today.
There has to be a niche somewhere in education where some outfit will finally break down and start post-high school colleges that only teach what is necessary. By my count, we've got at least two generation of kids who have been hoodwinked into thinking college is just a places where you go and get "open-minded" about bullsh*t academic philosophies.
If a kid isn't going to be a doctor, engineer, scientist, or something technical along those lines, they need to be put into two- or three-year programs where they are taught business skills. Things they'll need even if they never really own a business.
Teach them skills they'll need to not have the wool pulled over their eyes while engaging in regular life tasks such as the mortgage process, car purchase versus car lease, financial agreements, such as credit cards, etc.
The 2008 financial collapse was nothing but a huge picture of people not knowing what the f*ck they were signing or doing. More of that will come down the pike if we can't get a generation of kids to quit fixated on their skin color, religion, political affiliation and other crap that too many idiotic professors tell them are important.
Here is what life comes down to, no matter what color your skin or where you were born:
(1) CAN YOU PAY YOUR BILLS ON OR BY THE DUE DATE, AND FOR THE AMOUNT WHICH YOU OWE?
(2) CAN YOU FIND AND KEEP A JOB THAT ALLOWS YOU TO DO (1) YEAR AFTER YEAR, DECADE AFTER DECADE?
More humanities classes. Idiotic. Teach the kids how to be men and make a living.