Posted on 10/23/2011 7:06:25 PM PDT by alexmai
His point is actually correct, a large part of the reason many schools way over-charge for tuition is that they know student will be lent them money and the students will often spend 50-60K a year (or more) on tuition as opposed to finding the best deal for their money because the figure i can just borrow it not taking into account the crippling effects of being in your mid-twenties with 300K or so in debt. getting of the student loan program (for but the truly neediest cases,, and even then limiting it to no more than 15K a year) would force the schools that are over-charging to ennact more competitive pricing structure which would be both good for the taxpayers and the students.
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Yes, still there! But Syracuse is supposedly moving from the Big East to the ACC and he doesn’t really like the idea, so I’m thinking a few more years and he retires.
1996- loss :(
2003— he finally got his championship!
My husband used to say Syracuse cost a lot so B- students could feel like they went to a good school. If the check cleared.
And he went there too!
I used to get so mad at him— I worked hard in school and he just went with the flow!
I worked 6 different locations regularly worked on campus part time. Gas was $10.00 a week, and yes things cost less I saved 3 years before to pay for this as well. During the Carter administration too. I was much younger then and had little difficulty finding work.
Today, I have been unemployed for almost 2 years. Laid off from the Boy Scouts of America, I also fractured my spine 7 months ago. Times are worse today.
ACC? That’s as stupid as the PAC 12!
The ACC is a tough b’ball conference. If I were him, I’d make the move, and retire on the spot.
I remember 2003. What a great time for Syracuse!
You worked hard, and that is to your credit. However, I don’t think that your husband going to Syracuse is to his detriment.
He may have had it a tad easier, but you have the life experience that no one can take away from you.
That’s one thing that is missing from college these days...life experience. Too many have taken out student loans...government loans...and have nothing to show for it. Their degrees are useless but, mostly, they haven’t had the experience of working their way through college.
They DO have the experience of being handed a credit card to do what they will with, and rack up huge amounts of debt.
That’s what concerns me so much at this time.
Yes, I have nieces that fell for the “get your credit card here” game during their first days of school and yes, girls, you do have to pay them back!
From my vantage point as a professor at a community college I can attest that 85% of our students should not be in college.
They don’t participate in classes, they don’t attend and they parachute into classes to take tests. Then at the end of the semester they want to know what they can do to improve their grades. I have a 33% pass rate and administration wants me to raise this to 50%. One colleague has a 25% pass rate. I’m not privy to other faculty data, but I’d say anecdotally that few faculty pass more than 50%.
Administration wants us to reach a 50% or better pass rate and the Governor of Georgia wants a higher proportion of students to graduate. No way, no how!
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