Comments on: An F for effort on holding down tuition

By: There Goes The Neighborhood

There Goes The Neighborhood — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:16:25 +0000

Don’t forget: any federal aid that is based on a percentage of tuition is pure incentive to the school to raise tuition rates. Make them twice as high as they need to be to earn a profit, and the school is still making good money even when a student is only able to get half the tuition assistance they need. And if a student can get 50% of tuition in aid, then finance the other 50%, it’s pure gravy.

Bottom line: tuition is high because the government pays part of it — with the tax money they took from you in the first place. And then they cite all the aid as proof of how they value education and care about the middle class.

By: Freddy

Freddy — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:55:57 +0000

The entire university system is sitting at the brink of economic extermination.

This is comming not from ANY government or related teacher union structures, but by the implementation of technology.

Check out this little college: http://unow.com/.

These guys offer programs at roughly $200 a month. Which means someone living at home, or with a group of friends, and working a crappy part time minimum wage job, can afford to pay as they go!

Is it Harvard? No. Is it likely the equivelant of the majority of the 4500 universities around the country? YES!

This is how the higher education cabal is going to find it’s way to the ash heap of history.

By: aebloo

aebloo — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:45:08 +0000

I blew 560 bucks on textbooks for the four business courses I am taking this coming semester. They use custom editions now- making it all but impossible to buy them over the internet and avoid sales tax ( 7 percent in FL). Plus, buying used ones- is not cost effective as most courses require access codes that are included in the book. They need to reform the textbook market too while they are at it.

By: tom daschle concerned

tom daschle concerned — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:47:16 +0000

beware the education-government complex.

higher ed is a j o k e.

the institutions are full of degenerates and communists.

By: CorporatePiggy

CorporatePiggy — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:06:21 +0000

RoadRunner on January 2, 2013 at 10:52 PM

Everything she said.

By: BuckeyeSam

BuckeyeSam — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:01:22 +0000

For this column, Charles may lose his middle seat as the designated liberal on Brett Baier’s Special Report.

Sad that these facts are not understood by more than half the country. Even sadder is that the phucking GOP can’t explain these facts to anyone. A**wipes.

By: RoadRunner

RoadRunner — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:52:24 +0000

Why in the world would any college or university want to hold down tuition costs? Students can borrow any amount of money from government-backed lenders. It’s free money for the university, and they don’t even have to provide a decent education.