Unfortunately, College is excessively expensive. It is “big business.”
Local accredited community colleges and smaller universities can offer degrees for A LOT less money than the huge institutions. Plus the smaller colleges don’t have the facilities for dorms — a huge expense. So they can’t demand that students live on campus. Plus the added distractions of the “campus life” are much less. After all, the function of higher education is to learn.
Community College dormitories are a current but little known issue in New York.
From Community College Week, whatever that is: "Meeting student demand, bolstering their images and generating revenue are behind the move of several New York community colleges which are opening, planning or contemplating student housing.
But the colleges are finding they must clear difficult legal and political hurdles to build student housing.
College officials must overcome state regulations which prohibit community colleges from building or acquiring dorms, working through indirect mechanisms such as contracting through their foundations or non-profits for the lease or construction of dorms."
I don't know what's behind the push for these dormitories but it's intransigent. Real people are all against it.
Education is not big business, it’s big government. For some reason it’s the one soft spot that even Freepers have for government. I can think of nothing more detrimental to our country than to have the government teach our children. It is a self propagating system that breeds more and more government and stupidity. Government education = religion.