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Posted on 12/29/2008 3:34:32 PM PST by rabscuttle385
In the last 25 years, few prices have gone up as much as housing and college tuition. We know what happened to housing. So when will we hear the pop of the college-tuition bubble?
There are many competing explanations for why tuition has more than quadrupled since 1982, but one simple economic principle underlies them all: Universities can only charge as much as students and their families will pay. Sure, the University of California may have doubled its fees a few times over, but students kept paying, right?
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Too much federal guaranteed student money available already. Time to cut the cord to communist higher education. They’ve done enough damage to America.
Time to eliminate what I call “credentialism,” mandating college degrees for jobs that don’t really require them and long past time to eliminate “womyn’s studies,” “black studies,” and other such tripe.
College should provide a liberal education (I like the term “conservative education” better) for those who wish to be educated and preparation for useful professions such as law, medicine, engineering, and agriculture (to name a few).
I agree, though “law” might exempt. :-)
Obama believes that “everyone has a right to a college education”. Watch for college tuition to quadruple again within 10 years.
I tried my best to explain this to my nitwit neighbor who is convinced that all her kids (she has 4) will go to college with massive support from The Chosen One. I pointed out to her that if colleges cost 20k today, and TCO gives kids 15k to go to school, colleges will just raise their price to 35k a year. She insists that that would never happen - that colleges want kids to come to school and they want to do good.
**sigh**
It’s almost impossible to talk to liberals.
By the who paid for 0-boy’s education? Is that a secret?
Can you imagine if we addressed higher education the way we deal with health care?
The cost of higher education is going up faster than the cost of living. So we will cut professor salaries and expect universities to “get leaner”. So universities should cut out useless departments like women’s studies, ethnic studies, native american studies, etc. and focus on those departments that prepare students to get a J.O.B.
The faculties would have a fit.
Probably Hamas.
Tennessee instituted a “Hope scholarship” based on income from lottery money a few years ago. The scholarship gives $1000 per YEAR per student who meets the minimum qualifications. And since then, the annual tuition has gone up by, yes, you guessed it, about $1000 per year.
What...a..shock
According to my neighbor this won't happen once The Chosen One is installed as emporer. All things will be fine and better than fine. Just believe
....North Carolina has an “education” lottery to help schools....that fund is in trouble....people have severely reduced playing the lotto in these hard times....you would think it would be just the opposite....but not so.
as in all things, the flood of easy money into "education" has driven the quality dowwwwwwn.
Have you seen who's walking around with Harvard degrees lately?
I’m not impressed with any liberal arts degree, no matter what university it’s from.
If that’s what you meant.
Oh, right. I should’ve gotten that. ;)
You’re so right. I know so many teacher-types that are very impressed with their masters or PhDs. But - statistics show that any advanced education in ‘education’ classes doesn’t make them a better teacher - only say an MS in physics if one were teaching physics. But that would’ve required work and education classes are really hard to fail.
An education in itself doesn’t mean anything. It’s how it’s applied. I used to work with an engineering supervisor that told the new hires that our degrees didn’t mean we knew anything yet - just that we proved we could be taught. The more I worked, the more I realized he was spot on.
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