Posted on 01/04/2016 6:18:53 AM PST by artichokegrower
Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. That was true when Nelson Mandela said it in 2003, and it’s even more true today.
A college graduate today will earn nearly $1 million more on average over her lifetime than a person who has only graduated from high school. Education is critical to success in the 21st century economy. Yet for many young people, what determines whether they graduate from college is not whether they have the grades, but whether they have the money.
That is unacceptable in California.
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Tuition high? Wonder if it could be related to the millionaires working for the UC system? Millions in salaries, millions in benefits, and then millions in retirement.
$991,942 for Mark Laret, chief executive of UC San Francisco’s medical center. Pay scale for five chancellors are: $772,500 for UC San Francisco Samuel Hawgood; $516,446 for UC Berkeley Nicholas Dirks; $441,334 for UCLA Gene Block; $436,120 for UC San Diego Pradeep Khosla; and $424,360 for UC Davis Linda Katehi. UC system’s chief investment officer, Jagdeep Bachher $633,450; UC general counsel, Charles Robinson, $441,334; UC Davis medical center chief executive, Ann Madden Rice, $848,720.
Gotta get one of those state jobs and be a public servant.
Get government completely out of the “higher education financing” business. No loans, no guarantees, no grants, etc.
Allow student debt to be discharged in bankruptcy.
Watch tuition rates fall to affordable.
NO TAXPAYER MONEY NEEDED,
If they haven’t learned anything by the end of high school, why on earth would anyone think they will learn something in college?
No problem. Once uncle bernie gets in everything will be free. Work for free, sheep skins for free, gas for free, food for free. Why heck, it’ll be utopia just like previous socio/commie fantasy worlds. Well, at least for the elites.
California is enacting over 800 new laws starting today.
It just gets better and better in this progressive’s utopia.
What a pantload.
First, not everybody belongs in college. We already have legions of college graduates with a bunch of debt and no marketable job skills.
If everybody gets a college degree, a college degree will become worthless.
Get rid of the bogus majors like women studies, gay studies, black studies, etc. There are few or no jobs out there for these studies.
Westly is just another liberal take-all putz that is gearing up to run for governor. Of course he’s for free shit for voters. Where else?
Must?
Do they want a cheaper college degree? Eliminate all education subsidies and watch the price collapse. A bunch of professors will have to take huge pay cuts but that’s a plus.
My favorite college major: “Sports Officiating.”
Dear boy, you are mighty generous with other peoples money.
Starting this year ALL students in California get a diploma going back to 2004 whether they deserve it or not. College will be next.
What California must not guarantee is effective vocational education for the majority for whom liberal arts will not be a life track. The disinformational elites supported shipping our factories off to China. The individual mandate applied to 50 employees small businesses, the class enemies of government. Hacker Lab with design spaces, manufacture machines of numerous types, goes against this grain. North of Sacramento, the Rocklin satellite of Hacker Lab will be taken over by a Sierra College that failed to recruit a replacement machinist instructor of Computer Numeric Control CNC machining so that Sierra College got rid of it machine shop. Now CNC students have to go live out of state to practice their craft. Meanwhile the Sierra College Umoja African American student union is bustling, highly funded. What would have happened if those Black students could have escaped government dependency by becoming CNC machinist journeymen starting at $26? Can’t have that in a California fixated on equality of access, others would be left behind. The Black yeoman class only fit in as Toms.
First of all, who’s paying for it? Committing to deliver “free” services means that someone (either teachers or others) must donate those services to someone else. The government has no right (and should not be empowered) to take money from taxpayers to provide a “free” education to citizens.
Second, if the current quality of high school education met the levels of 20 years ago we would not have a progressive government. We’re turning out low information voters who can’t read or write.
Third, if a student gets a free ride they attach no value to the education.
Fourth, academic institutions have no incentive to keep tuitions or performance competitive if they can bloat their organizations and get paid to do it. Hence, very expensive educations funded by debt.
Gee, I could go on...
Gee, how about that?
Maybe those lauded professors should actually teach classes too?
Forget subsidies and student loans. Get rid of college degrees that are not worth anything. A womyn’s or black studies degree is useless except to get someone in the door for an interview which says, “degree required.”
Once you get rid of those types of degrees, you will also get rid of the administrative costs. Schools now have upwards of 100 degree programs. You need the same faculty to support Engineering as you do French Literature.
That’s why the cost of education went up.
Clearly lost on this dullards is the fact that when the stupid get dumbed-down college degrees they stand to earn nothing extra.
Since the Dems gained monopoly, JC, State and UC costs have greatly increased.
Yet, even at these higher costs, California does offer affordable cost for a college degree.
Before the Dems took over it was almost free.
Writer is a propagandist.
The issue is never the issue.
Programming of the human mind by Marxist “professors” is not education.
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