Our daughter attended George Washington University from 2007-2011. The President of GWU came to San Francisco and invited parents to meet him at the home of another parent. I went. While there he bragged that he was using tuition money from parents paying full tuition (which my husband and I were doing) to subsidize other students. I was infuriated. It was a struggle to pay the tuition. He justified this by claiming that “most” students received “some form of tuition aid”. Then he had the gall to have their fund raisers follow up and try to hit us up for another contribution. Not on my life! I would like to know the extent to which this is true elsewhere. I think every tuition-paying parent has the right to know just exactly what amount of the tuition they pay is being diverted to pay the tuition of others. There should be an opt-out, or at minimum, the right to deduct it as a charitable expense!!!
Most of the “presidents” of GWU over the past 20 years or so have either been certifiably crazy, leftwing wackos, or a combination thereof.
GWU was and probably is a good school but it has been made into a leftist bastion over the past several decades. I went there for one course in the Fall, 1970, on the “Psychology of Communism”, but left during the first third of the semester to go to Vietnam and Cambodia for a special research tour.
When I came back, the professor, a nice but very pacifist (Quaker) person, asked me to give a 5 minute talk on what I had seen (he had written a book on VN which we used in the class - “Nobody Wanted War: Perspectives from Both Sides” paraphrased title). After half an hour, I finished, and was suddenly supported in my observations by 4 Vietnam combat veterans in the class (who I had not known were in it).
I had demolished the professor’s thesis/book but he was a nice person and a professional for which I thank him.
I wonder if I could have done this in today’s GWU.