Posted on 10/17/2015 7:33:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Simply limit the tuition increases to the cost of living. Tuition goes up an average of about 10% per year while the COL goes up only 3 or so.
Make loans illegal.
Idea #1: Don’t go. :)
Idea #1: Don’t go. :)
Reduce the pay of the overpaid liberal professor indoctrinators and the dean for beginners.
RE: Idea #1: Dont go. :)
So, what to do instead?
How about eliminating useless classes and degree programs that will lead no where.
This is really a plan to place political appointees into colleges en masse. Sort of a bullpen and retirement outplacement for democrats in outgoing administrations and congress.
1. Make all debt dischargeable in bankruptcy. To include student debt.
2. Get the government out of all guarantees of debt to include student debt.
3. Make colleges eat all bad loans
RE: The Internet has rendered college irrelevant for all but a few specialized professions.
Yes, but will major employers recognize that?
I know. I’m working for an online designation now.
In 1978, I attended the University of Texas and took a full load. I lived at home. I left college with no debt because the per hour rate was about 60 bucks per class hour.
So, get the federal gubmint outta the college loan bidness.
Aside from getting govt OUT of education, how ‘bout doing the same they do w/ Mediscare/etc.: you take govt loans for education, you agree to be paid $X vs. $Y for non-govt-backed.
Good for the goose...
Of course degrees from private sector universities will be preferred to the point that a public university degree becomes equivalent to today’s junior college certificate. Only the rich and foreigners will attend top tier private colleges.
Courses that do not prepare students for the job market are cut.
No need for womyns or black studies programs. If you don’t know you are a woman or black, college probably isn’t for you. Only STEM programs are given scholarship money. Only teacher assistants are students who are in the teaching program. At least 50% of courses are offered online.
Everybody wants free education. Just pass a law or better yet scribble an executive order that schools can’t charge anyone and won’t be paid by government. They can do it as slaves because it’s the right thing to do and a college degree is just as much a right as free medical care.
I hate slavery but this should have wide appeal to the free education proponents.
If a kid wants a decent job that requires a college degree (such as teacher, accountant, HR, marketing, sales, etc) - then pick an in-state public university with low tuition. Or take the first two years at community college and live at home if possibile. An in-state school may be close enough to home to live at home, or at least travel to/from expense will be minimized,
In the end, it won’t make one bit of difference where the sheepskin came from. Plus, the quality of education is higher than bigger institutions, classes are smaller and more apt to be taught by instructors rather than grad students, plus the party atmosphere will be less.
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