Posted on 01/25/2024 10:01:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I graduated from college in the 1980s. I took my bachelor’s degree in 2.5 years by taking overloads—up to 22 credits--every semester, and full loads every summer and interim session, as well as a number of correspondence courses from another university when I had to have a class that wasn’t offered when I needed it.
At that state college, my education cost a bit less than $10,000. I was an adult, paying my own freight, and needed to get back into the workforce as quickly as possible. I took out no student loans.
Tuition then was a fraction of current college tuition. That was in part possible because the school had only the administrators it needed. There was one registrar, one President, and only necessary additional administrators. They all had full time jobs with at least eight hours of daily work.
Deans were working professors, and virtually every English and music class—my disciplines--was taught by a full professor. Every teacher at that school taught a full class load. There was no such thing as DEI, CRT or wokeness in general.
That’s not the way of things now, as John Sexton at Hot Air explains:
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The University of Virginia employs one full-time administrator for every three undergraduates at the school, according to an analysis conducted byThe College Fix…
During the 2013-14 school year, there were 291 full-time administrators and support staff employees per 1,000 undergrads, and in 2021-22, the most recent year for which data are available, there were 318 full-time administrators and support staff employees per 1,000 undergrads.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And in case you’re wondering the school has 55 DEI positions at an annual cost of $5.8 million. What in the world do these administrators do all day?
” my education cost a bit less than $10,000.”
Yep, back in die guten alten zeiten, local Community College was $900 per semester.
CA was free for a very long time.
CUNY Schools were world class institutions, a working family man could afford to get a degree going to night school.
First school that gets back to that, wins.
** Methinks the Internet may finally address it’s true calling.
They need to fire the staff, nearly all of them! I was just sharing with a friend this morning when we were discussing our upcoming kid’s college costs, that I did my undergrad and first year of grad school with an accumulated total of less than $5,000 in student loans, plus a year as a grad assistant. One of my jobs paid for some classes and some were paid while I wasin the military. I graduated virtually debt-free. It is incredulous to hear people talking about $300,000-500,000 debt for many students.
Just like birth control pills, College requires following a schedule and commitment. Young people don’t want to be scheduled they want to be free to be lazy with no consequences.
dei makes colleges unaffordable and college graduates insufferable.
Meanwhile, in 1986, the median income for families was $29,460. In 2023? $67,521. That's a 229% increase.
So, tuition over that period increased almost four times faster than median income. Today's colleges are borderline criminal grifters.
Oh, right. Anyone with three functioning brain cells.
That’s right.
That’s because they believe growing up means no more fun and that is why they refuse to participate.
The private enterprise got rid of most administrators.
With the publishing software, presentation software and spell checks, they are pretty redundant!
Only in academia, they actually proliferated!
And they cannot be fired. Since they control the admin, they decide who would be downsized if necessary.
Just catch 22, which is the root cause of sad sitiation of all American education.
Basic economics—when you subsidize something (in this case with government guaranteed student loans) you increase effective demand.
If the supply remains relatively stable then costs will skyrocket.
DEI the new scam that’s robbing them blind
Our beloved lightbringer is surely the poster child for the D in DIE (It’s DEI, dummy> Oh really? DIE is much more descriptive). ‘John Kennedy put a man on the moon, Barack Obama put a man in the women’s bathroom’. Inclusion- We don’t have enough homeless; let’s bring in 6 million more. Equity-Hailey Davidson=Captain Kirk. He did go where no golfer has gone before.
Unaffordable? How about irrelevant?
It would be interesting to compare that increase with that of professor salaries.
I attended Temple University in the early 80’s and the tuition was 1650 bucks a year which I thought was outrageous at the time ,..I recently spoke to someone whose daughter just graduated.45000 dollars a year for a 5 year course in landscape architecture.She lived on campus which accounts for some of that,,I lived at home.
I graduated from Rutgers College of Engineering in 1979. Tuition then was $1200/year and I lived at home. In <10 years, tuition increased by 50% judging by what you paid. It started 40 + years ago and has become worse.
Hey, they have to have somewhere to put all those graduates with useless degrees ending in “studies”.
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