Posted on 01/24/2010 4:21:10 AM PST by reaganaut1
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Mr. Macias is just one of more than 26,000 students at San Francisco State, and now educational opportunities cost more and are harder to grasp and even harder to hold onto than ever before. Mr. Macias’s experience of truncated offerings, furloughed professors and crowded classrooms is typical.
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Terry Hartle, the senior vice president of the American Council on Education, a [higher education] trade association, confirmed that higher education in California has become akin to navigating an obstacle course.
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In 1960, he added, the state created “the gold standard in high-quality, low-cost public higher education. This year, the California legislature abandoned the gold standard.”
Because of state budget cuts to higher education, San Francisco State is now offering 3,173 course sections, 12 percent fewer than two years ago. From the university administration’s point of view, that is not as bad as it might have been: over $1.5 million in federal stimulus money prevented more draconian cuts.
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This semester, he is signed up for a biology class, but was unable to get into the companion laboratory class. His other courses are a workshop on the “history, aesthetics, mechanics and politics of rap music and hip-hop culture,” a class built around the campus radio station, KSFS, and a class called “The Origins of Rock,” which is supposed to be for upperclassmen.
He is on the waiting list for a humanities class called Style and Expressive Forms and a physics laboratory class, which he hopes will help him get into the physics lecture class. They are meant to be taken together.
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And it is not just classes that he has to deal with this semester. He must also deal with the legal system. He faces misdemeanor trespassing charges as a result of joining last semester’s protests of the budget cuts.
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I think the main problem is we treat young adults as children. There is a thing called getting a job and working and paying for your education. Many do it all the time. College is NOT a time to free ride and party. These young adults and many of their parents expect taxpayers to dish out the money for 4 years of education while the young adult does not work. Yeah old fashion I know. But my niece worked her way through college and now is getting her masters degree all payed for by her. Let us get real here. It costs about 6,000 a year for a State University. You can easily work and pay that. Even if your job is flipping burgers. But you must be a responsible adult.
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Wrong thread?
A free man educates himself. Begging for a handout is debasing ones liberty and the education that results would, by definition, be inferior.
Nope, but not a list ping. Fits with that story last week or the week before about Berkeley’s screwing around with its physics program.
I can truly say that I am a poorer person for taking that class. I can never look at an eel/chicken/pony/cow/homo ever again without feeling revulsion.
Heinlein.
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