Colleges would be forced to do one of two things (if their customers could no longer afford their services)....Reduce costs (cut bloated Prof salaries) or go out of business.
The dirty little secret across college administrative offices....Is that, if the Gov't gave out less loans / grants......College costs would go DOWN. Colleges would be forced to do one of two things (if their customers could no longer afford their services)....Reduce costs (cut bloated Prof salaries) or go out of business.
Exactly! You just summarized the main problem with government welfare of any kind. It's just too bad that big government leftists don't have the ability to see past their own noses. If people were able to just understand this simple concept then the price of tuition would go down and we wouldn't be hearing these Marxist calls for "free" college for everyone.
Colleges would be forced to do one of two things (if their customers could no longer afford their services)....Reduce costs (cut bloated Prof salaries) or go out of business.
Salaries are not bloated simply because many schools only or mostly hire adjuncts on a per diem basis. (Though there ARE some who get on the tenure gravy train.)
OTOH obscene amounts are spent to recruit athletes, build new, bigger and better buildings and SELL, SELL, SELL. (i.e. giving free space, time, food and entertainment to credit card companies to lure students.) Education is no longer about nurturing curious scholars- it is now about breeding sufficiently docile customers and EVERYTHING is geared to this. Words can not describe the consumerist culture students are inundated with from the first day of kindy on.
As for private schools, half the tuition is for the sake of the name- the entry fee, if you will, for saying that you went to Harvard, Stanford, etc. Perhaps, in the bargain of life, this is a worthy investment.