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1 posted on 10/31/2014 7:21:48 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
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More taxpayer money to peddle their Marxism.


2 posted on 10/31/2014 7:23:42 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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Why? The DemocRATS say we need more “immigration reform” to import “skilled workers”. Obviously, the colleges aren’t doing the job.


3 posted on 10/31/2014 7:28:07 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Ebola and Enterovirus-D68. Proud members of Viruses Without Borders.)
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There is no useless courses at all that can be cut to save money at all. The only solution is more money from state, feds and students. /s


4 posted on 10/31/2014 7:30:41 AM PDT by pas
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Colleges want more Public/State Funding

Of course they do.


5 posted on 10/31/2014 7:32:23 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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IMHO the solution is more online education, with standardized achievement testing to document mastery of the subject matter. Reduces overhead markedly, doesn't require new bricks and mortar, does away with grade inflation, and makes education much more accountable and transparent. You would still need bricks and mortar education for things like medical school and PhD research training, but many things could be done online. Podcast-type lectures work quite well, and for interactive learning you can have online interactive sessions.
6 posted on 10/31/2014 7:36:03 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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They need to:

Cut down their administrators by 50%

Have strict admission standards based on prior and ongoing academic standing (which means fewer students).

Sell off some of their assets such as extravagant dorms, student facilities etc that were built in the last 20 years or so partly with public money.

Stick to core academic subjects.

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Then and only then should they receive any public monies.


8 posted on 10/31/2014 8:12:51 AM PDT by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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Running out of funds and ideas, colleges want more public funding ...
I got an idea ... how about spending some of those BILLIONS in your endowment funds.
9 posted on 10/31/2014 8:28:54 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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We’ve starved one of the glories of the United States - public higher education - to pour money into a bottomless put: E&S education. This isn’t to say that waste does not exist in public higher education; it does and should be rooted out. But we could swamp E&S education with a tidal wave of money and never see any results. But if money is put into public higher education - as has been shown in many states - the results can be spectacular.


11 posted on 10/31/2014 8:55:32 AM PDT by quadrant (1o)
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We’ve starved one of the glories of the United States - public higher education - to pour money into a bottomless put: E&S education. This isn’t to say that waste does not exist in public higher education; it does and should be rooted out. But we could swamp E&S education with a tidal wave of money and never see any results. But if money is put into public higher education - as has been shown in many states - the results can be spectacular.


12 posted on 10/31/2014 9:02:18 AM PDT by quadrant (1o)
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Can anyone justify forcibly confiscating some of the pay of a UPS delivery man for ANYONE's college tuition?

I sure as hell can't.

13 posted on 10/31/2014 10:17:25 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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How did all of those who were the first generation in their family to go to college manage all of these years…

I was the first in my family to go to college. I didn't need a "model." I developed an interest in science, partly inspired by my teachers in high school, and partly by reading science fiction(!). I knew the only way to become a scientist was to go to college, so I went.

For several years I was a trustee at our local community college. Every year, at graduation, the President of the college would ask those graduates who were the first in their families to go to college to raise their hands. Typically a third to a half of the graduates raised their hands. They didn't have a "model." They had a goal, just as I had, and they knew the road to that goal led through college. (Well over half the nurses in our county had gone through the nursing program at that college.)

I think that's what we need to provide young people: a goal. For some, the road to their goal will go through college. For others, that road may go through a trade school, an apprenticeship, or some other way of learning to do something constructive. The important thing is to let them know what the possibilities are.

15 posted on 10/31/2014 11:15:04 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Book: RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY. Available from Amazon.)
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To the College and University Leeches: People in Hell want ice water, too.

Why don't you do something positive like getting rid of USELESS courses such as; 1) anything with “Studies” as part of its name — Transgendered Saxophone Philosophical Studies 101; Social Studies classes with “Relationship” in them — “Relationship of Stone Age Man to LGBT Issues”.

How about a pay cut for anyone making over $100,000? Cap all professors and administration and employee salaries at the same level. As good Marxists you can understand the idea of a living wage for those who didn't build that. Equality should apply to all. Oh, wait?

16 posted on 10/31/2014 11:30:16 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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