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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He should drop out and work for DOGE
The last name Shieh sounds Chinese or Korean.
Meaning some teachers who belong to the church of DEI have it in for him already, daring to be a bold and broad minded student who is not a catered to minority.
The last name Shieh sounds Chinese or Korean.
Meaning some teachers who belong to the church of DEI have it in for him already, daring to be a bold and broad minded student who is not a catered to minority.
THEY ALL DO
A vocational education would be cheaper & have him working sooner.
Neighbor kid took HVAC classes while working as a ‘helper’ for HVAC company. THEY paid for his classes.
HE is 21—al,ost 22. Bought his grand dad’s property 2 years ago & is making over $30 an hour PLUS LOTS of overtime.
HAS a good work ethic-—when he had truck trouble-—they gave him a company truck to drive while HE fixed his truck.
“Brown’s $7.2 billion endowment comprises funds donated by individuals to the University with the intention that the principal be invested and provide an ongoing income stream to support the University’s educational purposes.”
https://investment.brown.edu/endowment#:~:text=Brown‘s%20%247.2%20billion%20endowment%20comprises,support%20the%20University’s%20educational%20purposes.
That young man should identify as an illegal - he would probably get free tuition, housing, meals and transportation.
A student you can’t expect much from them they are still in the learning process some take longer than others.
He has the chops to be the next Stephen Miller.
Miller far smarter in his approach.
The kid is a college sophomore.
A college sophomore who got well over his skis.
AKA political officers.
He sounds lie he's got things under control - needs no bologna-fication.
no thx
I’m just happy someone got the joke.
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