So, once again, students in the Colorado university system and their parents will be asked to pay more for tuition. The Rocky slips this university talking point into its report: "Low state funding has driven heavy tuition increases every year since the beginning of the decade."
Of course, how the money's being spent escapes all attention. Good luck figuring out how much it takes to educate a 4-year student at CU; the university's allegedly been trying for years to figure that out, and still can't provide a number.
They've been aided and abetted in this by a liberal press willing to cover for their friend in academia, willing to shout, "academic freedom," at the slightest provocation, and unwilling to examine not merely course content but salaries, capital spending, and travel budgets.
The fact is that universities themselves are increasingly perceived as irrelevant, even as their degrees become an ever-more important entry ticket to the professions. It's the price they're now paying for having assumed their importance for so many years, rather than having earned it.
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What angers me the most is
December 23, 2008 - 05:53 ET by Rush FanWhat angers me the most is the hiring of and the salaries paid to dirt bags like Ward Churchill and Bill Ayers. How many young minds have been infected by those type of "teachers"?
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What I recall best of my years at a "state" school...
December 23, 2008 - 07:38 ET by JohnMcGrew...was the apologies from instructors as we had to hand-copy the class syllabus off of a blackboard because their departments could not afford to run them off on their copy machines.
At the same time, each week the in-box for the student club I waspresident of was filled to the brim with reams of double-spaced, singled sided PC-speakmissives from nearly every department of the administration that nobody evercared about or read. Since they were allsingle-sided, they made for great scratch paper.
What value is in a College eduacation
December 23, 2008 - 08:41 ET by richb313What is the true value of a college education. It used to mean that it was a place where a student was exposed to ideas and differing points of view. It used to mean that a student at university was required to think to graduate. It used to mean that no idea was left unchallenged. It used to have a great value, more than could ever be measured in dollars and cents.
Today all that a University or a College education has to offer is the ability to earn more as you start a career working. It is now an indoctrination center. Far from being exposed to different ideas or concepts all universities seem to march lockstep to the same stupid beat.
Until recently you could at least get training in non humanity subjects such as the real Sciences (Physics, Chemistry etc.) and Engineering. Now however I am afraid that even this last holdout of quality has been polluted by corrupt political doublespeak.
I have therfore concluded that there is no real value in a college education or a degree and all such holders of said degrees should demand a refund. Maybe there is a case for a class action lawsuit on the basis of fraud.
Communist Goals for Education
December 23, 2008 - 08:48 ET by Retired GeekCommunist Takeover of America - 45 Declared Goals from 1963.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
Read all 45 Declared Goals from 1963, as read into the Congressional record.
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College Duh......
December 23, 2008 - 12:52 ET by UtherpendColleges have become nothing more than fronts for all the Football and Basketball teams that wast MILLIONS of dollars in revenue to produce uneducated atheletes. More than 80% of who will never get into the major teams and will end up going back to the states they recieved their free scholorships.
Every year the two teams in KY supposedly pull in millions in ticket and merchandising sales but none of it every makes it into the acedemic programs. In fact every time they win a state or national championship the tution rates go up. All the while they are crying to the federal government for more aid.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeeds you."
Higher Education Bubble
December 23, 2008 - 13:00 ET by Copperhead RidgeI can't help but think that the higher education tuition bubble is going to burst. Yeah, yeah, people should attend a university to extend the parameters of their thinking, but let's face it, people go to college in order to increase their earnings potential. I'm not sure when the noble pursuit of a university education ceased, but I think for 99.9999% of the population it died in the 19th century.
The question begs to be asked: Is college worth it? We've cheapened the quality of higher education through grade inflation and equal outcomes, and at the same time we've seen triple digit inflation of college tuition in the last two decades. We charge an increasing amount for a less effective education. Someone is getting screwed, and it ain't the universities.
If I were in high school right now, I would think long and hard about the investment, especially if I had saved a large amount of money for tuition. I'd have to ask, "Will a college degree improve my earnings potential enough to justify using this money?" I'd really ask the question if I was about to step off into the abyss of debt.
Is it worth it? I think people are waking up and asking this question. The nearby state university has a high number of students who never earn their degree. Some of these people go for six or seven semesters -- paying tuition all the way -- and still come up short because they're not really university material.
They have been duped! They not only lack the noble "universal education," but they also lack a degree. They are also going to lack a higher earning potential while paying back a mountain of debt.
I'd really like to see the number of people who drop out who are also paying for the education. When I was in school, the drop-outs were almost always on some sort of financial assistance. The ones who stuck with it were either paying their own way or on some sort of demanding academic or athletic scholarship.
Higher education is a disaster. It's a joke. I'm angry at my alma mater for cheapening the value of their degrees in recent years. My degree, which was valuable and hard earned, is diminished by its current standards. Hell, if you think about it, they're cheating their alumni along with the current batch of mushskulls.
Government Tampering Causes the Bubble
December 23, 2008 - 16:35 ET by deerjerkydaveCopperhead, like many economical bubbles, this one too is caused by artificial tampering by the government.
Prices have gone up because consumers have lost power at the bargaining table. Schools have discovered that tuition assistance from the government wins politically. Schools can raise prices with confidence knowing that the government is going to bail out the students. Now that government funding is tight the schools are belly aching that they're going to have to increase fees in order to scare the public into more government tuition assistance.
Government assistance can be a drug and a cancer for society.