Posted on 04/04/2025 7:03:18 AM PDT by Libloather
A sophomore at Brown University is facing the school's wrath after he sent a DOGE-like email to non-faculty employees asking them what they do all day to try to figure out why the elite school's tuition has gotten so expensive.
"The inspiration for this is the rising cost of tuition," Alex Shieh told Fox News Digital in an interview.
"Next year, it's set to be $93,064 to go to Brown," Shieh said of the Ivy League university. Brown's website estimates the total charges to attend the school for the 2025-2026 school year is even higher at $95,984.
"‘And I think that's crazy," he added. "I don't understand why it costs that much. And I never understood why it cost that much, but then I did some digging and I discovered that the reason why the price of college in general across the nation, but also particularly at Brown, has been rising over the past few decades. Far outpacing inflation is because we're adding on administrative staff faster than we're adding students, faster than we're having professors, administrators."
The total cost of attending Brown University for the 2019-2020 school year was $78,706.00, a 3.62% increase from the previous year. It's risen steadily since then and is projected to be nearly $96,000 in the 2025-26 school year.
Using AI during some free weekends in March from a common room in his dorm’s basement that routinely floods whenever it rains – making plastic tarps for the shared work and leisure space a necessity for a school that charges students around $90,000 per year -Shieh set out to determine what Brown employees did and why the school was so expensive.
He formatted his site to identify three particular jobs: "DEI jobs, redundant jobs, and bulls--t jobs."
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Brown University needs an enema.
If it’s brown, flush it down...
LOL! Not all college kids are retarded muzzie terrorist wannabes wearing masks and pizza place tablecloths on their heads.
The board of Brown should be the one facing punishment.
This kid is going to find out how “liberal” these left wing puppy mills really are.
Otherwise known as, “What the hell am I paying for?”
I can’t find the article, but it said that over the past decade, faculty costs at public universities has been stable, but administrative costs (deans, assistants to the dean, etc) have almost tripled. In other words, non-teaching expenses at public universities are out of control. Many of those non-teaching people are “compliant” officers whose duty it is to make sure the university adheres to all of the red tape gov’t has put in the way of educating students.
“It’s risen steadily since then and is projected to be nearly $96,000 in the 2025-26 school year.”
Dear Junior,
Perhaps a cheaper way of getting laid would be to give you $300/day to tour Europe nine months of a year with a young lady.
Mom & Dad
Brown University is located in Providence, Rhode Island. Providence is populated and controlled by minorities. Unless Brown “reaches out to the community” and hires who it is told to hire, Brown and its white core would be hard pressed and probably could not exist. As long as suburban parents keep getting the thrill of their kid going to an IVY league school, they will pay and the dynamic won’t change. The expensive devolution of American culture will continue.
He formatted his site to identify three particular jobs: “DEI jobs, redundant jobs, and bulls—t jobs.”
If its a white male...who cares? Hang ‘em.
He asked a perfectly legitimate question.
But lefties don’t like to have THEIR jobs threatened or be questioned about anything - that’s when they go insane and seek vengeance.
Thousands of emails sent to Brown employees, twenty responses. Those twenty could have ignored his email instead of responding negatively.
There’s nothing illegal about sending out emails to these people, so Brown is overreacting by accusing him of wrongdoing or doing harm. Just delete the email if you don’t like it!!
OTOH this student seems daft. In this country, everyone knows not to respond to pollsters, who are as likely to be up to no good as any positive motivation for what they’re doing. Conservatives who are up to speed on the evil of communists who’ve infested this country never respond to unsolicited polling requests.
Stupid kid.
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Shieh set out to determine what Brown employees did and why the school was so expensive. He formatted his site to identify three particular jobs: “DEI jobs, redundant jobs, and baloney jobs.” And now he’s being punished.
Over the past decade, faculty costs at public universities has been stable, but administrative costs (deans, assistants to the dean, etc) have almost tripled. In other words, non-teaching expenses at public universities are out of control. Many of those non-teaching people are “compliant” officers whose duty it is to make sure the university adheres to all of the red tape gov’t has put in the way of educating students.
Congress needs to investigate Brown U’s board of Directors.
“He formatted his site to identify three particular jobs: “’DEI jobs, redundant jobs, and baloney jobs.’”
Was the response:
Holy underwear! We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!
Student Alex Shieh is trying to figure out why the elite school’s tuition has gotten so expensive.
Alex, the answer is “Free” Money from Uncle Sugar.
To be clear that is tuition, room, board and perhaps some fees. But that is a factor of 20 increase over the last 5 decades.
Why? Government-backed student loans is a primary reason.
College marketplace: Seller is offering a product sold on credit to a Consumer virtually guaranteed to qualify to borrow full purchase price from a Lender with unlimited funds and no credit check. It's almost collegiate malpractice not to raise tuition prices every year.
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