Posted on 07/26/2019 3:38:07 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Tuition freezes are gaining popularity across the country. Earlier this year, university systems in Virginia and Pennsylvania announced that tuition would not rise in the next academic year, saving students and parents millions of dollars.
Purdue University started the tuition-freeze trend in 2013. Under the leadership of its president, Mitch Daniels, Purdue instituted a freeze on all tuition and fees at its flagship campus in West Lafayette, Indiana. Tuition has stayed flat ever since—more than half a decade. Since then, enrollment has increased, students have a more affordable education, and Purdue continues to thrive.
University administrators, governing boards, and state lawmakers can learn a lot from Purdue’s success.
The following table shows per-student spending in 2012, the year before the freeze began, and 2017, the most recent year for which data are available. All data are presented in 2017 dollars.
What Can Other Universities Learn from Purdue’s Tuition Freeze? JUL 26, 2019Jenna A. RobinsonJenna A. Robinson 0 Comments Tuition freezes are gaining popularity across the country. Earlier this year, university systems in Virginia and Pennsylvania announced that tuition would not rise in the next academic year, saving students and parents millions of dollars.
Purdue University started the tuition-freeze trend in 2013. Under the leadership of its president, Mitch Daniels, Purdue instituted a freeze on all tuition and fees at its flagship campus in West Lafayette, Indiana. Tuition has stayed flat ever since—more than half a decade. Since then, enrollment has increased, students have a more affordable education, and Purdue continues to thrive.
University administrators, governing boards, and state lawmakers can learn a lot from Purdue’s success.
The following table shows per-student spending in 2012, the year before the freeze began, and 2017, the most recent year for which data are available. All data are presented in 2017 dollars.
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And this is just Purdue. Imagine what could happen if the model were replicated at every other university. Of course, there might not be $90,000 for fake Indians to teach a single course while they built a political base to run for office . . .
Not to be sarcastic....but duh....u.s. And state and county and city governments and private companies and healthcare orgs...need to do same. Can you believe it...purdue cut furniture expenditures by...gasp...repurposing older furniture instead of buying new....who’d a thunk it?
As an observer from a neighboring state... I might not agree with Daniels on every single political issue, but I do on many, and he has proved a quite able and sensible Governor and now Purdue Pres. Cool guy!
Well, my Dad was a Purdue alum, so what can I say? The old war cry?
“Hail, Purdue!”
There isn’t anything that should keep them from adopting an allowance for people to study on their own and giving them credits for demonstrable mastery of subject material
That has been available for a couple of decades now. The problem is that many, if not most, parents think the kids have to go away to experience a "real" education.
That’s because it gives them an extra room to renovate for a sauna.
Hate to burst your bubble, but Fauxcahontas got paid $350,000 for that one class.
Go Boilers!
Boiler Up!
Had no idea it was that much. Are you sure? Sounds to similar to the sum Moochelle got paid for a do nothing job as PR head of a hospital before her wife got elected to the U.S. Senate.
Had Purdue instituted a budget freeze or cuts as well?
If not....
Warren Was Paid $429,981 As A Harvard Law Professor From 2010 To 2011. “Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was paid $429,981 as a Harvard law professor from 2010 to 2011 and got nearly $134,000 in consulting fees on legal cases in 2010.” (Andrew Miga, “Elizabeth Warren Got Nearly $430,000 Teaching At Harvard,” The Associated Press, 1/12/12)
Trustees sign off on Purdue budget, eighth year of frozen tuition
Looks like math ain't their strong suit.
Thanks. That ALMOST puts her in the same league as the Clintons for champion grifters. Only almost.
Harvard has over 38 or 39 BILLION Dollars in endowments... yet it still charges nearly 50k for tuition and another almost 20k for fees and room and board.
They LITERALLY could operate on their endowment earnings, and not charge a single dime of tuition ever again....
Oberlin has NEALRY A BILLION in endowments, but is claiming it can’t pay a judgement of under 40 Million.
These places are scams anymore... and people fight to be taken advantage of.
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There isn’t anything that should keep them from adopting an allowance for people to study on their own and giving them credits for demonstrable mastery of subject material
That has been available for a couple of decades now. The problem is that many, if not most, parents think the kids have to go away to experience a “real” education.
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‘Testing-out’. *I* don’t know of any institutions that still do that. What? And MISS OUT on the $$$ mandating students ‘go through the motions’??
Same thing w/ ‘electives’. Why does one need any sort of ‘well rounding’...they’ve either passed the subject(s) @ hand or not. Why does one “need” (essentially) a quarter of education in tennis/bowling/etc. (@ inflated rates) for ANY degree??
Don’t forget Gene Cernan, last man on the moon.
He was a EE.
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