[Viking2002]

As much as I'd like to go back to college at the ripe old age of 40, I'd have to sell a kidney on eBay to afford it.

[yooper]

Everything's bigger in Texas.

[southernnorthcarolina]

You didn't think Bobby Knight was working for free, did you?

[DaGman]

One of the ways the Texas legislature saw fit to balance the budget was to slash money for higher education while at the same time giving universities like Tech the latitude to raise tuition as they see fit.

But oh, no.... we didn't have a tax increase... the Texas legislature is just so wonderful... they just cut funding and let other entities raise fees out of sight (which includes my property taxes including school taxes and college district taxes)... but my property taxes weren't raised, they just jacked up to an absurd level the value of my property , but the Texas legislature is so wonderful...

[socal_parrot]

3k per semester is still probably less than half of what the education actually costs.

[freekitty]

Shame on Texas Tech for placing more debt on the tax payors.

[Professional Engineer]

Regents approved race and ethnicity as factors after a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June.

"Race will never be used as a single factor to admit a student," Whit more said.

The board's decision likely will draw fire from some organizations.

No s@@t Sherlock. Tech won't be seeing any alumni donations from me.

[Weirdad]

"? $4.86 million, 33 percent, scholarships."

Another tax. Another welfare program. Those who have to pay full price tuition are forced by government to subsidize "scholarships" for the chosen few. I thought Rick Perry and the Republican legislature were supposed to protect us from increased taxes but it turns out that when they set it so that relatively unaccountable consumers of the people's taxes like Texas Tech can create politically correct unlevel playing fields, it's nothing but another tax, fascism administered at a distance where the legislature and executive do not have to accept responsibility.

Add stuff like this to the long list of taxes you have to pay until May or June or July every year before you are permitted by the government to work for yourself.

[FITZ]

About 16,000 students, or 58 percent of the student population, is on financial aid at Tech, Brown said.

So the 40% who pay their own way must now pick up even more for those who won't pay ---- just so they can have more diversity? Sad when the numbers taking everything for free outnumber those willing to work for it. It's like here where only 33% of the population bothers with private health insurance and all the rest get the government to give it to them. Socialism will eventually cause the collapse of this nation.