I wonder what Nick Saban (University of Alabama) would think about such a limit. He's getting 7 million dollars this year to coach.
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.
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
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.
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.
Zero interest loans for superior students going for natural science degrees, like physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics and their corresponding disciplines. Contract education for superior students for qualifying medical degrees.
Liberal arts, Lawyers, Accountants, Political Science, Journalism et al ... pay their own way.
Here’s an idea - nationalize college education the way we’ve done it with medicine under Obamacare - have the government set up insurance banks to sell price-controlled vouchers for tuition along with panels to tell professors what and how they can teach - let’s see how that flies.....
I wonder what Nick Saban (University of Alabama) would think about such a limit. He's getting 7 million dollars this year to coach.
Economics is simple. If you artificially subsidize something, you shift the demand curve. In the case of college education, with the students no longer paying for their own education on a timescale they care about, they are willing to accept a higher cost in other people money. Government loans and subsidies both raised the cost of education and increased the demand for degrees that have no economic value. Government guaranteed loans need to be eliminated.
Cut the government grants and funding, sit back and watch the prices fall.
If the Democrats truly want to make college “free,” then they should offer to the professors and administrators and staff that they work for free. Otherwise, of course, it truly wouldn’t be free, and would result in higher — much higher — taxes for us.
Ya think that professors would work for free, you know, to be helpful toward the spirit of making college education free?