Student loans for a college education made necessary by dumbing down the first 14 years of “free” schooling sounds to me like the next best thing a master could come up with after his slaves have been taken from him.
Nah, made possible by faculty that are paid too well. I wish I only had to work 160 days a year and still make a crap load even compared to a job where you have to work 260 days a year. According to management, 80% of the college’s cost are personnel. Of that, roughly 55% is faculty, 30% classified, and 15% management salary. Don’t even get me started about paid 6 month sabbaticals or release time for college governance. Ask them to teach an extra section a term though and you’d think you asked for the sacrifice of their firstborn.