College offers to pay students to take year off

Associated Press ^ | March 16, 2014

[reaganaut1]

The top-ranked colleges have been raising the list price for well-off students to subsidize the studies of low-income students. Now they are subsidizing the "gap years" of low-income students. I'm sick of being thought of as a cash cow.

If you want to take a year off before college, fine. Get a job!

[Texas Eagle]

Colleges are paying students to take a year off after high school to travel, volunteer or do internships so that students of all income brackets can benefit from “gap years.”

Of course by "colleges", the mean "taxpayers".

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Your tuition dollars at work. Isn’t part of the purpose of taking time between high school and college to “find yourself” is to WORK a little to gain some maturity and perspective on what you want to do with your life before you go???? I guess that’s not the case anymore. In today’s society, “work” doesn’t have much to do with what people do with their lives.

[dfwgator]

They used to have gap years, it was called ‘joining the military.’

[Crim]

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

[C210N]

I was at some Tufts discussions to incoming students a few years back, and the overlying theme to this FR ear was globullization. Typically, across colleges/univ across the US, a semester of the Junior year has been for travel (with the study programs that really have no counterpart outside the US the exception, where the 4-y student does no semesters abroad).

Perhaps that is not enough globullizing the student, and they prefer to start earlier... pre-Freshman. That way, they don’t waste Freshman/Sophomore before they are properly glowbullized.

[cripplecreek]

Cutting colleges off the taxpayer nipple could go a long way toward fixing them.

[Ted Grant]

I think every kid should work at a dead end job for a year between high school and college. If more kids did, a lot of the leftist nonsense colleges peddle wouldn’t stick.

[elpadre]

colleges are ingenious in finding ways to keep tuition/expenses sky high.

it is time to put a cap on the federal student loan program.

[Mr. K]

I had a “gap 5 years” where I learned I sure as hell didn’t want to keep mopping floors and waiting for someone in the factory to die so a job opens up for a living

[NEMDF]

Soon the Dems will be telling us that this “gap year” thing is an undeniable right, and asking us to pay for this, along with forgiving the student loans.

[rwfromkansas]

This seems excessive.

I will admit, the biggest regret I have from college is not taking a semester at sea or abroad program.

It’s very hard to do that once you are in the working world. Now I have to hope I can live to see retirement to do it then.

But, the college paying for a full YEAR is too much.

Ultimately, that is on the taxpayers at many of these schools.

[Texas Eagle]

Amen, bro.

[BenLurkin]

No kidding.

Tufts must be nuts.

[BitWielder1]

So one more unproductive year, courtesy of taxpayers, is good exactly how?

Libs have no qualms wasting other people's money.

[willywill]

“Of course by “colleges”, the mean “taxpayers”

well tufts is private, but we do end up paying one way or another.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I thought “gap years” was when you decided NOT to go to college and realized you were going to be working at the mall and living with 4 friends - then you returned to school.

[BlueStateRightist]

Tufts sits near the Leftist Bastion known as Boston. It will continue to do its job of resupplying more pseudo-intellectual Leftists to the Boston Area. An education at Tufts (probably now approaching $60K per year) was a total waste of money even before this “gap year” plan. The other 4 years at Tufts are gap years, too.

[HarleyD]

Correction:

The top-ranked colleges have been raising the list price for well-off student loan students to subsidize the studies of low-income non-paying students.

Now it's correct.

[Texas Eagle]

well tufts is private, but we do end up paying one way or another.

Correct. Through "government" funded "financial aid".