[afraidfortherepublic]

The Atlantic publishes the most ourtragoeus articles.

[ClearCase_guy]

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!

[NativeSon]

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

[blueunicorn6]

From The Atlantic.

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

[ThomasThomas]

Lab fees. They already do.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

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.

[Scrambler Bob]

40 years ago, I paid extra lab fees for engineering labs.

[wideawake]

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.

[bigheadfred]

English Majors?

be making mistake

I would like to buy a vowel.

[Born to Conserve]

I think athletics is more expensive than the sciences.

[Resolute Conservative]

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

[peyton randolph]

They should charge a stupid tax on anyone majoring in philosophy, sociology, peace studies, womyn’s studies, black studies, LGBT studies, etc.

[Gay State Conservative]

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.

[thackney]

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.

[kidd]

Engineering textbooks cost $100-$350, each

English textbooks cost $19.95

[Hoodat]

The very first premise is false. English professors use the same classroom space as engineering professors. And they make the same six-figure salaries, too. So no, I'm not buying it.

Reduce the salaries of non-engineering professors, and then we can talk about reducing costs for non-engineering degrees.

[RedMDer]

It all depends on whether they teach "cursive" or not. :)

[reg45]

Even better; let us take the STEM courses and skip all the other worthless crap.

[reg45]

And don’t forget to pay the departmental professors by the same formula.

[BenLurkin]

Other way around.

Should gouge th4e dopes who want to waste four years on worthless degrees.