Posted on 01/30/2013 2:29:31 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
After catching heat from even a member of the state’s Board of Education, Gov. Rick Scott announced Monday that all 23 of Florida’s colleges that offer bachelor’s degrees have embraced his call for making available a $10,000 degree program.
Scott has been pushing to make higher education more affordable, ridiculing Florida’s universities for moving forward with tuition increases. The state college system, however, has ben more willing to follow Scott’s lead — and the governor Monday went to Miami Dade College’s north campus to announce a clean sweep of the four-year degree schools.
“Our goal should be that students do not have to go into debt in order to obtain a degree,” Scott said.
The cut-rate programs, like the four-year degrees at colleges, will be limited. Palm Beach State’s four-year degrees, are currently available only in business supervision and management, information technology and nursing. Normally, they cost $13,200 over four years, roughly the state average .
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Florida governor news success ping!
I would say this. While colleges hate CLEP tests...if all kids could walk in four months prior to college and take a dozen CLEP tests....they’d pass most of the basics and avoid at least six to eight classes entirely....based just on what they learned in high school. While in the Air Force, I took around sixteen of these tests and passed ten. Colleges hate having to accept them, and usually rig up some rules so that only one or two ever count.
I also think most kids ought to be in community college for the first two years (paying half of the normal college costs), to get most of their credits.
I also think most kids ought to be in community college for the first two years (paying half of the normal college costs), to get most of their credits.
I like the idea of Community College except for the fact that adults (over 18 regardless of what society says...they are in fact adults) living at home another 2 years. If there was some way to keep the tuition low and have dorm rooms for them to stay, I would recommend all adults over 18 to attend community college. But to have these adults live at home another 2 years is a horrible idea.
So are you saying that the best reason to send kids “away” to college or to attend 4-year institutions rather than community colleges is so that they will have even more expenses related to living on campus, instead of living at home?
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