Posted on 05/08/2015 9:31:33 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
That is clearly elitist. And anyone that should suggest that as part of full disclosure students in programs be given ROI stats on their major and their particular school should lower their head.
DK
Personally (and speaking as a college graduate), I’d rather see those who benefit from the education pay for their own education, rather than passing the cost on to total strangers. Among other things, I would expect students to choose more sensible majors if they had to pay for it themselves.
And don’t think it won’t make a difference to potential employers as to how a candidate financed their education.
Easier still, on-line classes. There is no 4 year degree. NONE. That cannot be learned by on-line classes with periodic lab work.
Having hired college graduates for years, I agree completely. I’m sure there are exceptions, but someone who worked through college or who took loans to pay for college is far more likely to have taken the academic side of college seriously.
The world needs ditch diggers, too.
So many of the undergraduate classes are taught by grad students or contract teachers who get paid a fraction of a college teachers salary. Further, so many depts are feather bedded by colleges requiring classes that are irrelevant to the actual degree courses.
You could cut a year or more out of a degree by getting rid of extraneous classes.
“With a massive tax giveaway to the rich” are words that immediately alert me to the slanted, left wing, class division crusaders who inundate our airwaves and “journalism” with their indoctrinated Marxist preachings. Never a point in reading any further.
When I went to school, the amenities were paid for via room and board. If you wanted those features you need up paying for them.
I would support the total withdrawal of all federal money from all higher education and the privatization of all state colleges.
:) Exactly. He’s making all the right enemies...
Get rid of all the departments and degrees that have no real place in a serious school.
"Gender Studies", African-American "Studies", etc., have no value as undergrad degrees. They should only offer a undergrad survey course, and let anybody interested work their way through real liberal arts degrees first, before becoming angry mis-educated Utopians blaming their boots for the faults of their feet.
Throw in AA as well. The not-ready-for-real school work types requiring remedial programs are a drain on the higher ed system.
Let such ill-"educated" go to either community college, or trade schools. Actual trades are almost always in demand, and they can do extremely well. Heck, one world renown theoretical physicist started off as a journeyman plumber.
The way the administrations and trustees have knuckled under to any given mob demanding this, that, and the other thing has devalued college degrees too.
And don't forget the increased "amenities" as mentioned in the thread as well. Lots of formerly respected schools have gone to appealing to the "all play and no work" demo.
U of W wanted to RAISE the tuition, and Walker locked them in, forbidding increases. The system was also hiding $600 MILLION while pleading poverty. The crime is the wasted resources from an out of control system that is largely beyond any accountability of any kind.
It takes chutzpah for salon.com to blame Walker for a problem caused by the system’s controllers and its enablers.
5.56mm
You read wrong. As Cincinatus' Wife frequently posts here:
January 3, 2011 - Walker assumes Office of Governor of Wisconsin.
June 27, 2011: Walker Revokes In-state Tuition For Undocumented Students Attending Univ And Colleges In Wisconsin "- On Sunday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) signed his two-year 2011-2013 budget, which included ending in-state tuition for undocumented students attending public universities and colleges. In-state tuition for undocumented students was approved two years ago by former Governor Jim Doyle (D) after the Hispanic community struggled for 10 years to pass it."
Those pie charts are self-reported B.S. What other industry could get away with passing this off as factual?
let the students pay and watch tuition drop..... except for perhaps the ivy league which is detached from reality and lost its aura of being a GOOD EDUCATION....hardly anymore...and is more of a commie training camp... look at the bungholes like hilary, cherokee warren, the kennedys, and bj clintoon.... and obumbler....
“the libtard investing in education” is simply buying educator votes and propagating communism... not worth it.
January 3, 2011 - Walker assumes Office of Governor of Wisconsin.
June 27, 2011: Walker Revokes In-state Tuition For Undocumented Students Attending Univ And Colleges In Wisconsin "- On Sunday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) signed his two-year 2011-2013 budget, which included ending in-state tuition for undocumented students attending public universities and colleges. In-state tuition for undocumented students was approved two years ago by former Governor Jim Doyle (D) after the Hispanic community struggled for 10 years to pass it."...
Wisconsin is the ONLY state that has ever revoked instate tuition for illegal immigrants.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.