Most are in a state of anticipation (across the country) as everyone waits for various administrations to deliver full meetings-reports regarding the full effects of this mess.
There's a lot of breath-holding going on right now.
My curiosity (or nosy-ness) mirros douglain's. I hope things are secure for you.
Remember that I teach high school; my course load is entirely seniors. So, I've got the group leaving public education and, teaching mostly Honors/AP students, those pursuing the higher ed. track. My concern is that, after this year's graduating class, that the upcoming group(s) will have a helluva time. And with opportunities limited in our general rural area . . . It's depressing to know in my heart of hearts that there's going to be a lot of bright kids who are going to have a long row to hoe as the financial aid shrinks and shrinks.
Personally, we still have Lovely Wife's student loans, and she's got a year left on her current grad degree, but we're down to that and three other notes, so I'm not as dodgy feeling as I could be or should be at the moment.
Side note: Looks like the seven acres of family land of clear-cut behind our house will shortly be replanted with some pines and turned to pasture for cows. Self-sufficiency plan growing . .
It's definitely going to be hard in the near future for the college-bound. I read reports now and then that say things will bottom out in the middle of next year and then start to rise again.
I'm not sure what that theory's based upon, though. I see no reason to believe that it's going to just drop and then spike back up.
My private uni, while not having a lot sunk into endowments, has announced a hiring freeze, a conference money suspension, a staff-hours reduction (support staff is now reduced to 35/wk instead of 40), a slashing of 15 tenured positions (to begin with), and the non-filling of positions vacated by at least 10 retirees.
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There's a lot of breath-holding going on right now.
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Remember that I teach high school; my course load is entirely seniors. So, I've got the group leaving public education and, teaching mostly Honors/AP students, those pursuing the higher ed. track. My concern is that, after this year's graduating class, that the upcoming group(s) will have a helluva time. And with opportunities limited in our general rural area . . . It's depressing to know in my heart of hearts that there's going to be a lot of bright kids who are going to have a long row to hoe as the financial aid shrinks and shrinks.
Personally, we still have Lovely Wife's student loans, and she's got a year left on her current grad degree, but we're down to that and three other notes, so I'm not as dodgy feeling as I could be or should be at the moment.
Side note: Looks like the seven acres of family land of clear-cut behind our house will shortly be replanted with some pines and turned to pasture for cows. Self-sufficiency plan growing . .
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I'm not sure what that theory's based upon, though. I see no reason to believe that it's going to just drop and then spike back up.
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My private uni, while not having a lot sunk into endowments, has announced a hiring freeze, a conference money suspension, a staff-hours reduction (support staff is now reduced to 35/wk instead of 40), a slashing of 15 tenured positions (to begin with), and the non-filling of positions vacated by at least 10 retirees.
After this, the deluge.
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Holy. Crap.
So, it begins.
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