• Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    It’s kind of scary that a college professor could misread what I said so badly.

    I said private colleges were already competing against Public Universities/State Colleges, not CCs.

    And frankly, no one actually needs private colleges to exist. We need affordable educational opportunities, and private colleges have decided to abandon that in favor of greed. And fucking franchise sports.

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      It’s kind of scary that a college professor could misread what I said so badly.

      You wrote they in a situation that has multiple entities attached to the story. Your statement was ambiguous.

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        The context clues within that sentence removes any ambiguity. No one with a passable grade school level of reading comprehension was going to think I meant CCs were competing with Public Universities, especially given the title I was responding to had Private Colleges as the primary actor.

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      Private colleges have their own niche. They’re important too. And they’re absolutely not cannibalizing the public institutions. They’re far more expensive, offer more specialized experiences, and generally speaking support at different clientele.

      Edit: If you don’t like the idea of private 4 years, wait until you hear about private universities. XD