Big Goverment demands price fixing for medical services. Let’s try the same with academia.
$8billion dollar endowments and all that yet the tax payers have to fund it in “public education” and bad loan bailouts (as well as “instate” tuition for foreign born non-citizens).
It takes the tuition of about six students to pay for one year of Liz Warren’s 1%er salary. There are many “Liz Warrens” in academia, so naturally costs must rise.
I suspect that profit has a bit to do with it as well.
Funny ... it’s free for illegals.
I wish some private investors would start a private college to compete with these other “universities”.
I can’t wait for the college bubble to burst.
College does not offer that much, thanks to the internet.
My daughter qualifies for a full tuition scholarshipto University of Alabama. We live in California, but she wants to go to college in the south.
Her college costs would be under 6k a yeaar compared to over 30k a year at the UCs.
We think she’ll get into one of the iIvys, but they rarely offer scholarships.
I can’t wait to gon on a visit to Alabama!
Now that kids can be covered under their parents' plans until they are 26, many are opting out of the college health plans. This is making the college health plans more expensive for the teachers and admins.
No worries though. The colleges are requiring all students to have sufficient health insurance protection. In many cases their parents' health insurance (surprise, surprise) is not deemed worthy and so the student must pay as much as $2000 or more per year to enroll in the college's plan.
College administrators are pure hypocritical scum.
Any and all subsidies and free money provided by government are "successful." why wouldn't they be?
I’ve convinced my daughter to live at home when she goes - it cuts the bill pretty much in half and since she wants to be a physician she’ll have a minimum of 7 years to save. Of course I also managed to convince her to take hunker down and take over a dozen AP courses in HS so I’m hoping she can cut a year off through that also.
Home schooling will evolve into home colleging from the necessity of no options.
I tell my 13 going on 14 year old he better keep pitching shutouts and hitting home runs, if he wants to go to a good university.
The private individual’s dollar is competing against unfettered access to the public treasury.
You know who’s going to win in that equation.
Sky’s the limit!
Until the sky falls, that is...
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!
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.