Why have colleges been raising prices for the last 30-40 years?
"Because they can!"
He's also giving the university system more autonomy over how they handle their own affairs - so university can find the savings - as we all have had to do. Everyone will be watching to see how the university swing it (cut $300M from a $7BILLION budget).
Fact: Over 50% of every state's budget goes to education. This is separate from the Federal money (again - YOUR money) spent on education.
"Higher" Education = Big Education: Where after most of the incoming freshman take a few remedial classes (reading, writing, math) they can start their re-education indoctrination.
Gov. Walker Proposes Bold Education Budget
Scott Walker's 2015-17 Budget Proposal: What You Need to Know
This is another thing I like about Walker.
Oh, nooooooo!
Cutting six-figure salaries for teaching two classes each semester and actually making students pay the real cost of an education.... it’s too cruel!
It would be nice to have a President who will be vicious to the entire federal budget. Walker 2016.
Walker’s spending cuts are “vicious.” Jindal’s are “savage.” Brownback is even “worse.” When Salon pisses and moans about things like this in such hysterical terms, you know these governors are doing something right. Keep up the good work guys!!
Maybe the luxury style dorms will have to get rid of the espresso machines and maid service.
Just exaggerating, slightly.
I doubt that anyone who lives here and has to pay our high Wisconsin taxes considers these cuts "reckless".
Perhaps the professors will actually have to teach more than one class per week to stay within their budget guidelines!
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Reading that made my brain hurt
The UW will cut “gender studies” or some such crap, then raise hell about how Republicans and Walker are forcing sexism into the university. Just like when local school boards are forced to make cuts, they always threaten to cut football and band.
Since we are discussing college tuition...
I read recently that Walker used to support in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants.
Please correct me if that is not true.
Why have colleges been raising prices for the last 30-40 years?
"Because they can!"
Cut administrators and cut prof pay/class taught. If they want more pay, teach more classes.
"Devastating" to the marxist parasites who infest academia maybe. And it's true that budget cuts might mean those useless propagandists will have to find real jobs where their cherished ideals of laziness, ineptitude, and bureaucratic anonymity are not of much value.
The article has not explained why taxpayers should be paying for higher indoctrination, er, education, either.
Gee, that's quite a spread there. I imagine most of that 8.7 occurred during the earlier years when there were actually jobs waiting for college grads.
And I'd like to see a pie chart showing the correlation between percentage of college finacial assistance vs actually attaining a degree. From what I've seen the less skin in the game = less importance placed on attending class. Eventually the beneficiary losses interest and drops out.
Nothing in that statement about the efficacy and cost effectiveness of our college system. I believe that we can cut university funding another 60% with zero impact on productive education that matters.
All we have to do is eliminate the useless wasteful, and counter productive courses, administration, and activities on campus. That is, return to the basics of what a college education should be all about.
liberal arts is the most insane education on this planet. May as well
give those students crayons and finger paint.
Get the government money out of college and tuition will fall back to sane levels.
Government money and loan guarantees are the reason some schools can pay $250K or more to a prof with only one scheduled course.
In 2013 the average full professor at Columbia was paid $212,300 a year.
http://tinyurl.com/High-Pay-Profs
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.
“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.