Posted on 09/19/2019 5:27:37 AM PDT by qwerty1234
Wouldn’t this violate Sec 505 of the IIRIRA...?
Section 505 of IIRIRA mandates that unauthorized immigrants “shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a State for any postsecondary education benefit unless a citizen or national of the United States is eligible for such a benefit without regard to whether the citizen or national is such a resident.”
It is a game changer. Because the game is changing.
To Socialism.
Some bad ideas are unstoppable. This one is going to sweep the country I’m afraid.
Driven partly by hard feelings of indebted grads who are sitting in cubes next to H1B holders who got their educations for free in their home countries.
Instead of improving the roads or the homeless situation, or the DWI problems in the state, MLG wants more giveaways.
Given the amount NM is already spending on education and Medicaid, depending on how much this program costs, I don’t think NM can afford it...
The math is off here, but this is exactly the way our government was designed. Each state gets to decide how they deal with public education.
The idea that the feds should have a monolithic “free” education system is a stupid political talking point designed for the young and stupid.
In GA we have programs that encourage higher grades in HS. The higher your GPA, the more tuition is covered by the state. I love the merit based approach.
Just about any state resident could get admitted into university regardless of high school grades as a provisional admit and then win full admission into whatever program they enrolled for by keeping their grades up above 3.0 average
Tuition was like $200 per semester which still allowed a student to work their way through school without loans
Good students were retained and the bad students and the screw offs were weeded out
After decades of affirmative action, lowered standards and a desire on the part of faculty to indoctrinate acolytes instead of educating scholars the system no longer works because the bad students and screw ups get promoted in the system and the good students are marginalized for not getting with the Leftist Progressive PC agenda by the new power structure that wants use the University as conveyor belts to forward its Marxist agenda
A while back, probably on Fox, I saw a segment on College of the Ozarks. They seem to have a sensible approach to debt and education.The following statement is from the homepage of their website. -
“C of O is unique among higher education institutions in America: no tuition is charged, all students work on campus, debt is openly discouraged, and no federal, state or private loans are made.” -Jeff C. Davis, President
Wether everybody here in NM gets a college degree or not—makes no difference.
There’s nothing here.
Nobody with a a college education, in their right mind, would want to stay here.
It’s a fricking DESERT!!
THERE’S NOTHING HERE EXCEPT DEMOCRAT BLIND AMBITION TO RULE AN EMPTY, GOVERNMENT-LARGESSE-SUCKING DESERT KINGDOM.
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“The program doesn’t cover students’ living expenses.”
Which will suddenly, and for very good reasons you see, become mandatory and very expensive.
I agree. Who is paying for all of this “free stuff”?
“Don’t know why these schools aren’t run entirely by students, except for professors who actually teach classes. Students would receive real world experiences working up from cafeteria workers to administrators.”
Agreed.
Kind of like the original purpose behind Land Grant Colleges.
I like dry desert climates.
Sounds good replacing ______ studies with _______ engineering, but more than half of all American STEM graduates cannot find work as companies prefer and only will hire Indian H1Bs, OPTs and H4EADs for jobs.
Kick all the Indian visa shit out of the USA, then Americans will have a shot at jobs.
Indian workers are like Chinese manufacturing. Ruining the American middle-class
Add to that, it will be really hard to refuse anyone admission when it's a free entitlement.
One thing I learned from my SAT prep and tutoring experiences: if it's free, students don't work as hard and their parents don't force them to.
The Rats have almost a stranglehold on New Mexico. Water. Water is New Mexico’s problem and always has been, always will be. Currently the population of New Mexico is probably extracting ground water at a rate faster than it’s being replenished. IOW, New Mexico can’t sustain the population it has NOW. They have something like a $Billion surplus from petroleum taxes. So FREE COLLEGE is a predictable libtard dream. If it does start to attract people they will have to SHUT IT DOWN because they can’t handle the stress on their water supply now.
I was a professor part time for 5 years.
1/4 of all students just wouldn’t do the work. They’d show up, take tests, participate, ... but didn’t do the actual core assignments.
You can’t learn to write software if you, ya know, don’t write software.
1/3 of all students (aforementioned included) failed.
Another 1/3 passed, but I figure had no prospects in the industry.
Final 1/3 could make a job of it.
Of those, maybe 6 excelled. (Go play Killing Floor 2 to support one of them.)
UNM Anthropolgy is probably world class. I would imagine Petroleum Engineering is pretty good, as well.
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