Posted on 05/27/2013 11:44:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 05/27/2013 11:45:40 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Former Education Secretary William Bennett sums up a big part of the problem in a new book titled
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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Hillsdale is not alone. Other schools — Grove City College in Pennsylvania comes to mind — also reject federal dollars because they don’t like the strings that come attached. Whatever their reason, the result is that these schools have to work harder to keep costs down and attract students by emphasizing value for money.
College is a monopoly that sells useless product for an extremely high price. I honestly believe that a majority of the kids who go would be better off not going.
Add College of the Ozarks and Patrick Henry College to the list:
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It costs so much because only the “privileged oppressor” class pays it.
“oppressed” people pay much less, compliments of the evil capitalists.
It cost so much because they need to support a bunch of useless librals who would stave to death if they had to be productive.
Marxist and communist “professors” don’t come cheap. All their BS about “greedy capitalists” is just part of their shtick.
Christendom College (lay run Roman Catholic) takes no Fed money for anything.
College is basically a resort for late adolescents complete with gyms, flat screen TV’s, exotic cuisine, constant entertainment and obviously easy access to members of whatever sex floats your boat.
The appropriate comparison would be to what has happened to the cost of similar resorts like Sandals, Club Med etc. I suspect the increases would be roughly comparable.
Maybe because we shower our universities with money, and it’s institutionalized by taxpayer money.
It’s a money-laundering racket for liberals.
It appears that colleges have raised their tuition and fees over the years, far over and above their own costs of doing business. And they do this because they know that loans are paying the bulk of the bill.
How many students go to another college because of tuition increases? I bet the vast majority of students who need aid simply take out more loans to cover the increases.
And we could have a huge discussion about whether college is worth it, from the standpoint of the liberal indoctrination students receive. Some fields, such as the hard sciences or business, are not so politicized. But so many subjects in college, such as sociology, the humanities, history, literature, students are being fed liberal clap trap. And paying tens of thousands of dollars per year to be fed the liberal clap trap.
Thanks.
It also has to do with the remedial classes that have to be taken because of the public schools are not teaching prior to college.
RE: a resort for late adolescents complete with gyms, flat screen TV’s, exotic cuisine, constant entertainment and obviously easy access to members of whatever sex floats your boat.
The current financial model of private colleges is to keep tuition prices high so as to capture a great amount of money from students who can afford to pay top dollar. This money then funds fanciful construction projects and superfluous creature comforts for students, which for some reasons, REALLY do wonders to attract more of the same students.
A Vice-President of a university I attended (Texas), years ago, one day told me how a university determines where to set their cut off scholastic scores for students to be elgible to get in the university. He said they lower the standards until there is enough money to pay for the buildings. And, he was head of the counseling education division before he became Vice-President. Amazing - it’s not how smart you are, it’s paying for the buildings that matter.
College is for funding union hacks and their lavish pensions. Some of that money goes to political candidates. Everyone knows this. We need to starve the devil, not feed it.
Hold the cards, folks. We have a bingo. The colleges and universities raised their rates far above inflationary increases. Over a twenty year period, tuition is doubled and tripled. Then these fine institutions spend every dime they get and turn around and cry "We are poor". Scoundrels!
Recently, a local university associate professor got in trouble with the law and the news article stated that he made $101,000 per year. An associate professor nonetheless! Is he that doggone good to receive such a salary? And no this is a long way away from New York City.
Yes. Or in the words of a old prof of mine - “college is daycare for adults”. And obviously not a very cheap one either.
Because they can. Once something is deemed as “necessary” they can charge whatever they want.
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