Posted on 08/15/2020 4:50:16 PM PDT by karpov
After Southern Californias soaring coronavirus caseload forced Chapman University this month to abruptly abandon plans to reopen its campus and shift to an autumn of all-remote instruction, the school promised that students would still get a robust Chapman experience.
What about a robust refund? retorted Christopher Moore, a spring graduate, on Facebook.
A parent chimed in. We are paying a lot of money for tuition, and our students are not getting what we paid for, wrote Shannon Carducci, whose youngest child, Ally, is a sophomore at Chapman, in Orange County, where the cost of attendance averages $65,000 a year. Back when they believed Ally would be attending classes in person, her parents leased her a $1,200-a-month apartment. Now, Ms. Carducci said, she plans to ask for a tuition discount.
A rebellion against the high cost of a bachelors degree, already brewing around the nation before the coronavirus, has gathered fresh momentum as campuses have strained to operate in the pandemic. Incensed at paying face-to-face prices for education that is increasingly online, students and their parents are demanding tuition rebates, increased financial aid, reduced fees and leaves of absences to compensate for what they feel will be a diminished college experience.
At Rutgers University, more than 30,000 people have signed a petition started in July calling for an elimination of fees and a 20 percent tuition cut. More than 40,000 have signed a plea for the University of North Carolina system to refund housing charges to students in the event of another Covid-19-related campus shutdown. The California State University systems early decision to go online-only this fall has incited calls for price cuts at campuses from Fullerton to San Jose.
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The arguments that college is about the experience and the friendships and connections aren’t worth a damn any more.
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that’s the current method
I really like the Caramel Macchiatos.
Wow.
Just wow.
It’s time for this bubble to burst.
From what Ive seen over the last few months, the biggest problem here are PARENTS.
Theyll whine and complain and write letters demanding tuition reductions, but they never even think of just telling the school to eff off ... and enroll their kids somewhere else or let them work for a year or two before going back to school.
The u. Got big tellin everyone that a college educated person makes more money than non college edu. Big lie. Depends what you learn and how good you are. Roll in the dirt, you lying dummies.
As I talk about this issue with friends and family, I am getting the distinct impression that the Omnipotent University Intelligentsia have screwed the pooch, and have no idea yet that their destruction is under way.
Normal people are looking again at what they actually need, what they are getting, and what it’s costing them, and the assumptions they’ve been handed are dissolving faster than a spoon made from pressed sugar in a cup of hot coffee on Candid Camera.
The army of Mental Controllers that the CPUSA spent generations building is in the process of becoming irrelevant, and unemployable.
Hale-frickn’-lujah.
Peak Brick and Mortar Higher Edumacation.
We’re there.
There used to be the GM Institute that had students working at GM for a semester or two along the way.
Didn’t seem to hurt them any.
Saved a few buck$.
Those two sons can probably own their own businesses by the time they are 30 and make a lot more.
The peasants are storming the ivory tower. A lot of useless a academics are going to be hungry.
The peasants are storming the ivory tower. A lot of useless a academics are going to be hungry.
The other thought I have about this is that those affected by and denied admission by affirmative action policies who otherwise could have been admitted now don’t have to be denied such admissions. Online courses should allow broader access to almost anyone. The only thing online classes can’t do is supply science and engineering students with lab equipment especially in the realms of chemistry, biology, and physics.
This is where virtual reality could really be tweaked....a dance instructor could virtually walk between her students and correct their stances and postures and each student would also have the same sense of being there.
Colleges could have classes held in a virtual space....the goggles are getting better all the time.
Im loving watching this system implode. Pretty soon professors are going to be clamoring to get back in the classroom when faced with pay cuts and layoffs. F them all. Send your kid to a trade school so they can come out with an actual skill.
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Worth repeating.
Those who have poisoned minds for decades becoming unemployed and underjoyed.
Yep - lots of overhead being paid for that is no longer relevant to the brainwashing of the college subjects...I say they raze most of the buildings and do something useful with the land - maybe turn it to wetlands...
“Colleges could have classes held in a virtual space....the goggles are getting better all the time.”
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