Peter Khoury clip 081125

Peter Corey, some excellent content and excellent perspective, exceptional experience from Dr. Corey. The Manufactured Crisis: College Closures Are Not Abrupt, Although We Believe Them to Be. College closures are not abrupt, they're allowed, Dr. Corey says. And he says this is an exposé on the false theater of surprise. And the institutional rot we keep pretending not to see. This is not for me, although I like the words. This is from Dr. Peter Khoury. And the performance begins the same way. He says, in quotes, shocking announcement, students blindsided, faculty devastated, and no one could have seen this coming except we could. We do, we always do. And so he says, let's stop pretending. And that's what we're all about here at College Viability. We know, I know the ones that aren't gonna make it. I know by looking at the data. And he continues, this is not a tragedy. He makes the case it is theater executed with precision, protected by plausible deniability. I don't use that term much, but that's clearly what's happening when college leaders have provided sanitized public consumption information by foundations and consultants and a media class news reporters in too many cases who are more invested in the narrative of the closure heartbreak than the discipline of accountability. And we're about accountability here at College Viability, and that's why we have so many listeners listening to this show, 10,000, while we have 50,000 in the last year on the College Viability channel on YouTube. And Dr. Corey goes on— I'll get back to that— Dr. Corey goes on, the real The real surprise is not that these colleges are closing. The real surprise is how long we collectively pretend they were not already closed. This false theater of surprise at institutional rot we keep pretending not to see. And to be clear, and I've said this before, Dr. Corey says, to be clear, people will always need to learn. That's going to happen. There are millions that have gained and earned great value from their college experience. And learning will continue, skills will be acquired, credentials will emerge. But if colleges, Dr. Khoury adds, if colleges cling to legacy models that reward inertia over innovation, they will be replaced by institutions and platforms willing to meet learners where they are.