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Your State University Doesn't Want You
theodp writes "According to a new survey of college admissions directors by Inside Higher Ed, the admissions strategy judged most important is the recruitment of more out-of-state and international students, who can pay significantly more at public institutions. Ten percent of those surveyed also reported admitting full-pay students with lower grades and test scores than other admitted applicants, and a majority of schools either use or plan to use controversial commission-paid agents to recruit foreign students (commission-based recruitment is barred in the U.S.). 'This isn't about globalization or increased educational diversity,' asserts USC's Jerome A. Lucido. 'They need the money.' So, should employees of a public university where the President's annual compensation exceeds $1 million receive a full state-funded pension for educating 16,000+ out-of-state students?"
As another poster notes, what the problem is not is salaries for teaching staff. Most teaching staff is overloaded and paid peanuts. The big money goes to the upper-level administrators. Typical...
But the real problem is simple the staff ratio. The typical university now has around a 5-to-1 ratio: for every member of teaching staff, there are five other people running around increasing overhead. Lots of this is due - directly or indirectly - to federal mandates:
In a nutshell: close the federal department of education, get rid of federal involvement in student loans, and let the free market work. After a brief period of bloodletting, as the fat is slashed away, tuition costs will plummet.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
gay marriage is wrong, huh that really sounds like a typical liberal position... dumbass.
Good for you.
You're succeeding in an environment that was created by years of post-war investment in infrastructure and education, R&D, and industrialization. Pretty sure that most of that was done by people with post-secondary education.
You might even be able to coast through your career and earn enough to live on once the U.S. OAS is dead.
As a rhetorical question, are you creating anything while you're doing that? Something that will generate wealth? Or are you helping to recycle the diminishing wealth of your nation?
I suggest people read "That Used To Be Us" and then ask yourself if you are a creator or a server. Even with an IT degree, you're a server. Creators will help bring America back.
However, I seriously doubt that North American society has the desire to do what it takes to be great again. Just look at what we throw up for politicians and what we do to them if they try and do something right for our country. We have become narcissistic to a fault .