Obama decries rising cost of college education (Cannot "just jack up tuition")

AP ^ | January 27, 2012 | Jim Kuhnhenn and Kimberly Hefling

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Someone’s got to pay so the affirmative action students and illegals can go to school for free.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I want to call out the president on another aspect of this.

He states that investing in a college education is a sound investment. He states that we need to produce college graduates for our economy, etc. (paraphrasing things he has said)

But it all depends what degrees students get. Liberal arts degrees, humanities degrees, degrees in fields such as women’s studies do NOT qualify for you a job based on your degree.

There are many college graduates working in retail stores and other such places, where they could have gotten jobs without the college degrees they possess.

So many students get degrees in field which do not lead to jobs and career paths, that I think we should question the entire notion of government backed loans to enable students to get degrees in fields which won’t help them. Or help our economy grow, which is allegedly a goal of Obama in producing these college graduates and subsidizing their education.

[Sooth2222]

Yes, a blind squirrel ... and Zero is just as clueless about what to do with this information as a blind squirrel.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-—He states that investing in a college education is a sound investment. He states that we need to produce college graduates for our economy, etc. (paraphrasing things he has sai-—

I think he truly believes this because he is a higher ed hothouse flower, never having held a real job.

Plus, he doesn’t seem to be too bright.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

How typical of someone without knowledge of basic economics.

When vast floods of federal money are directed at higher education, higher education raises its price to capture the money.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-—WOW!!!!!.......I want to know who there investment manager is !!!!!!...............-—

Why would a not—for-profit have an investment manager? /s

Die Harvard, die!

[Neoliberalnot]

Big news for Obutthead, the decline in state funding is exactly why tuition is going up. Odumbo is as stupid as they come. Where did they get this idiot?

[traditional1]

First; remove the Unions from ALL Government employees.

Second, reduce benefits and salaries to lower the cost of Tuition. If you wanna have "Indoctrination Centers", the Taxpayers will not fund them.

If you can't afford college after that, get a job, save your money, and THEN go to college.

Taxpayers should IN NO WAY be forced to fund hand-out tuitions for ANYONE.

[Vaduz]

You can’t jack up tuition every single year because it’s what I do with taxes.

[Neoliberalnot]

Rising state and federal student aid IS the reason tuition goes up. Astoundingly, Obama has hit on the solution: cut student aid.””

No, no, no—it is a decline in state funding for every public institution in the country. The private instituions are following the trend.

[Soul of the South]

“‘‘Historically, we’ve funded universities whether or not they’ve done a good job of graduating people, whether or not they’ve done a good job of keeping down tuition,’’ Duncan said on MSNBC’s ‘‘Morning Joe.’’

I thought the mission of the university was to educate (i.e. impart a certain level of knowledge) not to simply to graduate people or keep tuition down. People can graduate and not be educated. Keeping down tuition may actually reduce the ability of the institution to educate depending on how expenses are managed with lower tuition. Shouldn’t the Secretary of Education be measuring the output against the mission? Perhaps the Department of Education is so bloated because their focus is not education.

[LS]

By now it may be state funding has fallen. Perhaps I should say “GUBMENT” aid to students. OK?

[Neoliberalnot]

I work at a land-grant university where state-funding has declined to 19% of the budget and another large fall is coming next year. In order to maintain the social welfare programs, funds from all other sectors are forced to pay. This has been a national trend for years now and has clearly been the worst for the last 3 years. We have had pay-cuts every year for 3 years in a row.

[LS]

But tuition there has gone up, correct?

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I looked over the Berkeley budget. They spend over $500 million a year on staff.

They employ just shy of 25,000 people. That works out to about $20,000 a year per employee.

[ArrogantBustard]

You can’t assume that you'll just jack up tuition every single year.

That's stunning hypocrisy from a mohammedan queer who thinks the FedGov can jack up taxes and welfare every single year.

FUBO.

[Myrddin]

The "kids" next door have degrees in anthropology from one of the less rigorous colleges on the UCSD campus. The wife earns money putting on "passion parties" selling sex toys to women. The husband lost his job delivering pizzas and recently found a new one as a registrar for an online college. Both are very frustrated that their degrees are worthless in the market. For exactly the same money, they could have pursued a useful degree at one of the more rigorous colleges e.g. Revelle. A degree in biology, chemistry, physics or electrical engineering would have been far more marketable.

[Neoliberalnot]

Yes, but it has not made up for the cuts.

[newzjunkey]

"... If you can’t stop tuition from going up, then the funding you get from taxpayers each year will go down.’’

If only he could be believed.

[LS]

Right. I’m trying to show that regardless of how the money is allocated, tuition keeps rising, and Vedder and Cox show a direct link between aid and rising tuition.