[C19fan]

It is schools spending money on non-academic crap like this that has helped fuel the explosion in costs. High Point charges over $40 K a year for tuition room and board. It seems like a decent student body academic wise although its acceptance rate is 67%. The school plans on investing $2.1 billion by 2020. Maybe the money could be better spent keeping tuition low. It seems like a place upper middle class and rich kids go who can't get into the academically challenging places and want to have a good time for 4 years.

[bgill]

Back in the day, my little state university didn’t serve steak and it’s only extra was the $1 movie or dance once a month at the student union building. Those were also the days when it was cheaper to go to college with room and board than to stay in mom’s basement.

[Fido969]

I was in a small town in New England a few years ago, the town was a transportation hub back in the steamboat days, but now the biggest industry was it’s college.

As I walked down streets where the “robber barons” used to live - brownstone mansions with manecured lawns, each building sporting a sign that pointed it out as a dean’s residence, an administration building or housing for the faculty, I marvelled at the weath... and it occurred to me - THESE are the modern day robber-barons.

[IronJack]

Why not? An overgrown playground for overgrown children.

Anyone graduating from a “university” like this would signal me that he is clearly not ready for the real-world job market.

[GeronL]

and who paid for all this?

[sportutegrl]

Oh, no! An ice cream truck! And Skee Ball?

Has the author of this ever even BEEN to Walt Disney World?