Cookie Cutter Universities would be a horrible thing.
I've got a lot of experience in that area, and cookie cutters are cute, but stupid. They can't learn a thing. They're set up to make hearts for example, and that's all they ever do until they break.
The government shouldn't be in the cookie cutter business.
Then again, it shouldn't be in the Financing Some Kid's Education Business, either.
If the government wasn't interfering in the college financing scams, college wouldn't be so expensive, and maybe the myth that everyone has to have a college education to be happy would finally evaporate. I can't imagine why anyone things the Wal-Mart clerk with journalism degree is going to be any happier than the Wal-Mart clerk that hired in straight from high-school and didn't drag down those college loan payments. They're getting paid the same, aren't they?
Here's an idea....make the kids going to college, and their families, accept the fact that it's their education (or their kids) and that it's therefore their RESPONSIBILITY to finance that education and to choose a major that's both productive and profitable.
It's not the duty of the taxpayer who didn't spawn the kid to pay for the stranger's education. He's got his own life to live, let him live it his own way...without burdening him with a busload of miscellaneous crap that he had no part in.
As was noted in Caddy Shack, it's fine for the young lad to aspire to his highest abilities....but if he can't afford to reach them, well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.
Then again...before the government got to interfering in college finances....students could figure out a way to work their way through college. And, well, let's face it, if they're not willing to work for it, why the hell should the government be wasting someone else's tax dollars on them?
No...college today isn't about learning useful skills. It's not about becoming productive members of society. Be for real. The only reason kids go to college is Spring Break.