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Dylan Smith is in his second year at Adrian College, a small liberal arts school with about 1,600 students in the state of Michigan.
迪伦·史密斯在阿德里安学院读大二，阿德里安学院是密歇根州的一所小型文科学院，约有1600名学生。
When Smith was looking at colleges, he liked the small college environment at Adrian.
当史密斯在挑大学的时候，他喜欢阿德里安学院的环境。
And the school wanted him to join its football and wrestling teams.
该学校希望他加入足球队和摔跤队。
But Smith did not think a liberal arts education would help him get a job, so he planned to study supply-chain management at Michigan State University, which has nearly 50,000 students.
但史密斯认为文科教育不会帮助他找到工作，因此他计划在拥有近5万名学生的密歇根州立大学学习供应链管理。
Supply-chain management is a field of study on how to handle the flow of goods and services from raw materials to businesses.
供应链管理是一个研究如何处理商品流和服务流从原材料到企业的领域。
But then Adrian College added supply-chain management to its offerings.
但后来阿德里安学院将供应链管理添加到其课程中。
That made him change his mind and attend Adrian.
这让他改变了主意，去了阿德里安学院。
“I couldn’t say no to getting the degree I wanted from a smaller school instead of at a big university where you’re looking at 200 students in a class,” said Smith.
史密斯说：“我不能拒绝从一所较小的学校获得我想要的学位，我不想去一所规模较大的大学，那里一个班有200名学生。”
An increasing number of mostly small, liberal arts colleges in the United States are drawing students like Smith by sharing courses online with large universities.
美国越来越多的小型文科学院通过与大型大学在线分享课程来吸引诸如史密斯这样的学生。
The move is a way for small colleges to deal with decreasing numbers of students going to college.
这一举措是小型学院应对日益减少的大学生数量的一种方式。
In the past ten years, 81 small, private colleges have closed in the U.S.
在过去的十年里，美国有81所小型私立大学关闭。
And nearly two-thirds of high school seniors now say a college degree is not worth the cost.
如今近三分之二的高中毕业班学生表示，大学学位不值得花这么多钱。
The information comes from a New America and Third Way study.
这些信息来自新美国和第三方道路进行的一项调查。
Rick Ostrander is an assistant to the president at Westmont College in southern California.
里克·奥斯特兰德是南加州威斯蒙特学院的校长助理。
He said, “Course sharing lets us maintain what we are, which is small and residential, but compete on selection and price.”
他说：“课程共享让我们保持了规模小和适合居住的现状，但在选择和价格上存在竞争。”
“Hundreds of schools are going to go out of business if we don’t figure this out,” said Jeffrey Docking, the president of Adrian College.
阿德里安学院校长杰弗里·多金说：“如果我们不解决这个问题，数百所学校将会关闭”。
The school has used course sharing to add 17 fields of study in just the last two years, including computer science, web design, cybersecurity and public health.
仅在过去两年里，该学院就利用课程共享增加了17个学习领域，其中包括计算机科学、网页设计、网络安全和公共卫生。
Parminder Jassal is head of Unmudl which is developing technology to make it easier for colleges to share courses.
帕明德·贾萨尔是Unmudl的负责人，该公司目前正在开发使大学更容易共享课程的技术。
She said, “We’ve been sharing through Airbnb. We’re sharing cars. We’re sharing everything. Higher education is probably the last place the idea of sharing is finally hitting.”
她说：“我们一直在通过Airbnb进行共享。我们共享汽车。我们共享所有的东西。高等教育可能是共享理念最终突破的最后一个领域。”
Some employers say liberal arts study develops important skills for the workplace, such as the ability to write well and solve problems.
一些雇主表示，文科学习可以培养工作所需的重要技能，比如写作能力和解决问题的能力。
But students and their parents worry that a liberal arts education will not be enough to get the kind of jobs they want.
但学生和他们的父母担心，文科教育不足以获得他们想要的那种工作。
Getting a good job was the most important reason students gave for going to college, a study by the University of California at Los Angeles’ Higher Education Research Institute showed.
加州大学洛杉矶分校高等教育研究所的一项研究显示，找到一份好工作是学生上大学的最重要原因。
A 2021 study by the Federal Reserve found that half of the students who earned bachelor’s degrees in liberal arts said they would now choose a different field of study.
美联储2021年的一项研究发现，在获得文科学士学位的学生中，有一半表示他们现在会选择不同的专业。
Through course sharing, small liberal arts colleges can quickly add the technical programs that students want at less cost.
通过课程共享，小型文科院校可以以更低的成本快速增加学生想要的技术课程。
Some community colleges and historically Black colleges and universities are also choosing to use course sharing.
一些社区学院和历史悠久的黑人学院和大学也选择使用课程共享。
Adrian College says new programs that it has added through course sharing brought 100 additional students over the last two years.
阿德里安学院表示，在过去两年里，它通过课程共享增加的新课程增加了100名学生。
That is equal to more than $8 million in the total cost over four years of those students’ education.
这相当于这些学生四年教育的总成本800多万美元。
It is also less expensive for a college to pay for course sharing than to hire new professors.
对于大学来说，课程共享的费用也比聘请新教授的费用少。
For many colleges, developing new programs themselves takes too long and costs too much.
对于许多大学来说，开发新课程本身耗时太长，成本太高。
The firm EAB estimated that it costs as much as $2.2 million to develop a new study program.
EAB公司估计，开发一个新的研究项目需要高达220万美元。
“The way that higher education has always worked is, if I wanted to offer those courses to students, I would have had to go out and hire a faculty member, add those courses and see if students would take them,” said Ann Fulop, a vice president at Eureka College in Illinois.
伊利诺伊州尤里卡学院的副校长安·富洛普说，“高等教育一直以来的运作方式是，如果我想向学生提供这些课程，我就必须出去聘请一名教员，增加这些课程，然后看看学生是否会选修这些课程。”
The school used course sharing to add a computer science study program this year.
该校今年利用课程共享增加了一个计算机科学学习项目。
President Docking of Adrian College said, “If we’re willing to work together, and share some courses, we can offer many, many more… programs for very little cost.”
阿德里安学院校长多金说，“如果我们愿意合作，共享一些课程，我们只需很少的成本就可以提供更多课程……”
I’m Andrew Smith.
安德鲁·史密斯为您播报。
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