So, you look at the European university operation. No NCAA sports. There’s fairly good odds that if you start out on day one...the vast majority of students (probably over seventy percent) will be there to wrap it up at the end of four to five years (yeah, shocker that some bachelor programs run five years in Germany). Support staff within univeristy programs? Yeah....but they basically get paid around 30k Euro a year and not the tidy $70,000 to $90,000 that you see at major universities in the states. New buildings appearing on campus every year? Well...no, they’ve got some buildings that easily date back to the 1800s.
Take the template which a typical German university would operate and force a US university to operate within the same perimeters (pay, staff, operations, sports). The US student would be paying a max of eight thousand dollars a year.
One major problem we have in the USA is the fact that schools even have things like the “Gender and Sexuality Resource Center” which is OK with murals of cop killers.
That crap isn’t free.
These days we’re trying to turn every local community college into a 4 year university and every kid should attend. Education is becoming a self perpetuating funding machine for socialists.
Hillary will soon be rolling this out, along with single-payer medical insurance.
Today’s youth and minorities are not able to see the tyranny in this.
Colleges are worried.
With the technology we have today and what is promised for tomorrow, your child will not have to go to college except for hands-on experience. Today you can get education on the internet about every subject known to man.
With discipline your student can learn everything they need to know on the internet and new technology will change how our children learn.
At home .
The free education is provided for free by unpaid staff .... Is he proposing the professors donate their time?
NOT free, of course.
Merely billed to those who have a bit of ready cash.
Yes! Let’s raise the standard of performance of higher education to that of the post office!!! Oh...Wait...
I love this “free” stuff. Will utilities be expected to donate their goods and services...gas, water, electric, etc.? Will the entire staff, from maintenance to dean, be expected to donate their time? Property tax-free? Outside contractors will work for no pay on campus projects? Don’t think so.
Wow, it’s so nice of him to offer to pay for it himself!
Or are the professors offering to teach without pay?
The administrators work without pay?
The facilities people working without pay?
Utility companies, food prep/supply, all offering free stuff?
How nice of them.
I suppose we’ll just “ask” them as Obama says.
I propose that we taxpayers be free from paying this moron’s salary. What a waste of our money.
What Sanders is proposing (a per-transaction tax on Wall Street to fund “free” college tuition) will garner nothing less than 73% approval in polling among the low-infos.
This will eventually become law. And more than a few Republicans will vote yea.