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?"

Comments

Ratio of teaching to non-teaching staff

[bradley13]

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:

• Affirmative action (or whatever the current buzzword is
• XXX-studies, "human diversity" and other PC crap courses, and the associated programs, counseling centers, etc.
• Legal offices and staff, driven by the ADA, federal idiocies like the latest "sexual harrassment" rules, etc.
• Finally, just plain bloat, due to the fact that students have money (through federal loan programs), so universities have no incentive to keep costs under control.

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.

Re:Costs of education?

[waives]

gay marriage is wrong, huh that really sounds like a typical liberal position... dumbass.