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Should Colleges Charge Engineering Majors More Than English Majors?
The Atlantic ^ | 07/05/2013 | Jordan Weissman

Posted on 07/05/2013 7:45:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 07/05/2013 7:45:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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The Atlantic publishes the most ourtragoeus articles.


2 posted on 07/05/2013 7:48:30 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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Soak the productive class. Squeeze all the money out of them. Start as early as possible, and never let up. People with ability should suffer and feel guilty for their disproportionate tendency to contribute to the common welfare.

English Lit majors? Why not give them 4 years of partying for free? They're going to be on government assistance for most of their lives anyway, so why delay the inevitable? Let 'em have their fun! The party never stops when you lack the ability or the will to contribute to society!

3 posted on 07/05/2013 7:49:24 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lib arts majors should be charged more to cover the cost of the welfare they will be on after they graduate


4 posted on 07/05/2013 7:50:49 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: SeekAndFind

From The Atlantic.

The Atlantic......full of old wrecks, garbage and s**t. It’s also the name of an ocean.


5 posted on 07/05/2013 7:51:00 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SeekAndFind

Lab fees. They already do.


6 posted on 07/05/2013 7:51:23 AM PDT by ThomasThomas ("We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.")
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If anything Universities should charge more for worthless degrees.

Lets look at charging premiums for women’s studies, black history, political science, GLBT studies, communications and other worthless will never amount to a hill of beans degrees.

If you look at donations from previously awarded degrees by department I think you’d find that humanities would come up way short of anyone with a worth something in the real world degree.


7 posted on 07/05/2013 7:51:34 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
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40 years ago, I paid extra lab fees for engineering labs.


8 posted on 07/05/2013 7:51:51 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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RE: The Atlantic......full of old wrecks, garbage and s**t. It’s also the name of an ocean.

Would it help if they renamed the magazine to The Pacific? :)


9 posted on 07/05/2013 7:52:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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English Lit majors?

Hey, the world needs more barristas to sell $8 soy lattes to other English Lit. majors.

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10 posted on 07/05/2013 7:54:23 AM PDT by Rodamala
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Translation: Cultural Studies majors are not making as much money as graduates who go on to do useful things.

They are having a harder time making payments on their loans.

Therefore the burden should be shifted to those who are doing better.

Here's a thought: hard science and engineering programs attract the vast bulk of grant money.

Humanities professors get paid as much - and often more - than engineering professors, but they produce a tiny fraction of the grants.

Humanities are already being heavily subsidized - perhaps humanities students should be forced to shoulder the burden.

11 posted on 07/05/2013 7:55:51 AM PDT by wideawake
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English Majors?

be making mistake

I would like to buy a vowel.

12 posted on 07/05/2013 7:55:52 AM PDT by bigheadfred (barry your mouth is writing checks your ass cant cash)
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I think athletics is more expensive than the sciences.


13 posted on 07/05/2013 7:56:18 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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Vowels cost extra.
14 posted on 07/05/2013 7:57:15 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Quite the opposite. Engineers will make more and pay back into the system by having real jobs.


15 posted on 07/05/2013 7:57:53 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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The Atlantic publishes the most ourtragoeus articles.

Well, heck, afraidfortherepublic! You wouldn't want to see stupid ideas begging on the street, would you? Moronic anti-American ideas have to live somewhere, don't they? If not for the Atlantic, where would heavily feral government-subsidized National Public Radio find "creative" ideas?

16 posted on 07/05/2013 7:58:01 AM PDT by Standing Wolf
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They should charge a stupid tax on anyone majoring in philosophy, sociology, peace studies, womyn’s studies, black studies, LGBT studies, etc.


17 posted on 07/05/2013 7:58:57 AM PDT by peyton randolph (Tagline copyright in violation of Directive 10-289)
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It's easy to see why Engineering professors...and professors in medical schools (for example)...would demand higher pay than would an English professor.Why? Engineers working in the field...and physicians actually treating patients...can make serious $$$.English professors have employment alternatives? I think not,apart from writing books perhaps.

So,yes...I can see engineering students paying higher tuition.

18 posted on 07/05/2013 7:59:36 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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When I went to Engineering College, we had a lot more required credit hours to graduate than the average degree.

We also got a lot of donations to different departments of engineering as companies wanted specific items taught. The concession made to some of the upper level classes that would also count as MS credit, they were taught at night. This let local companies send their employees and still work while getting a Masters.

I doubt this happened a lot in degrees that have little demand after college. So our high demand engineering student created donations for the university.


19 posted on 07/05/2013 8:01:51 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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LOLOLOLOL! My mother used to send me a subscription to the Atlantic. I used to remove my name and dump them at the Dr’s office. hen I though about a little deeper and decided that I did not want to corrupt the minds of sick people. Now, I just dump them into the garbage.


20 posted on 07/05/2013 8:01:57 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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