College Costs Exploding

Accuracy in Academia ^ | July 20, 2014 | Ethan Gaitz

[who_would_fardels_bear]

One example that was given to me was that the parents' plan required a $250 deductible for prescriptions, but that the university required that the deductible be no larger than $200.

Basically a silly requirement created explicitly for the purpose of forcing parents to cough up more money.

Evidently some parents had already figured out what was going to happen at "orientation", made sure not to have any documentation regarding their plans on hand, and answered every question in the affirmative so that they could forgo the additional fee.

My friend, on the other hand, had brought all of the paperwork as instructed and unintentionally ratted herself out.

[RFEngineer]

“.....if he wants to go to a good university.”

“Good” can be achieved going to community college for the first couple of years and transitioning to a 4 year state institution.

Of course, that’s not everyone’s idea of “good”......

[hummingbird]

"I wish some private investors would start a private college to compete with these other “universities”.

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How does Hillsdale rank along these lines?

[HoosierWordsmith]

As President of Purdue University, Mitch Daniels has held down operating costs producing a tuition freeze at PU for a third straight year...did it by turning the PU focus to adjusting their costs to the budgets of the students/parents, not the other way around.

This lesson that could be used by the GOP this Fall and in 2016. The message should be simple...we work for the American people not the other way around....to this end we pledge to reduce or eliminate the corrosive influence of unions, to eliminate unnecessary spending and headcount in every government agency, to privatize agencies better run by the private sector like the VA and Amtrak, and most importantly, to set clear spending and efficiency goals using real world business processes and hold agency management accountable...you miss the goals, you are gone!

Mitch Daniels did so many great things as Governor of Indiana by employing clear and simple business practices. The GOP would do well to follow his example!

http://www.goacta.org/the_forum/purdue_university_bucks_trend_freezes_tuition_for_third_year_in_a_row

[Junior_G]

I really need it to happen within the next 15 years.

[pallis]

My local community college is now a four year college, and one of my sons was among the first to get a bachelors there.

[BobL]

I don’t have to deal with tuition anymore...at least for a long time, but if I did, I would sue - based on colleges charging different people massively different prices, based on an arbitrary criteria that doesn’t exist anywhere else in this country, which is income.

[1Old Pro]

How does Hillsdale rank along these lines?

Very well, we need more Hillsdales.