I'll take GET A JOB for $500, Alex
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Probably a philosophy or psych major......
Where were the parents to give them advice on the whole "overextending your credit" thing? I don't care if they have to work an extra part time job to pay it back. I worked 2 jobs most of my career just to afford a certain life style. Why are they any different?
transporter
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Based on the other signs in the background, this picture is roughly 6 years old and is from the Occupy Movement. To put this into perspective, why didn't the OP put a Tea Partier holding up a sign up the deficit or debt that "Obama created"? The concept was just as inane but the deficit/debt are no longer a problem since Republicans won last November...the tax cuts that passed in Congress prove that.
AS for the discussion about college costs, the student and his (?) parents CHOOSE to incur that kind of debt. THEIR choice. SMART parents send their kids to community college for two years, then the state university. The degree says the same thing as a private or IVY league school and the cost is SUBSTANTIALLY less. The cache of an IVY league degree doesn't mean much unless you have the family pedigree to go with it or you are in the top few percentage points of the graduating class.
AS for the discussion about college costs, the student and his (?) parents CHOOSE to incur that kind of debt. THEIR choice. SMART parents send their kids to community college for two years, then the state university. The degree says the same thing as a private or IVY league school and the cost is SUBSTANTIALLY less. The cache of an IVY league degree doesn't mean much unless you have the family pedigree to go with it or you are in the top few percentage points of the graduating class.
warneckutz
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Best of luck to him/her...
SamSpade
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Glad we agree - the kid is a nitwit.
Womyn's Studies
Lurk
Happy Creepy Ass Cracka
You stupid flake.
SamSpade
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When I was in college, costs of classes were by credit hour - period.
A three credit course in underwater basket weaving cost the same as one in say microbiology or engineering.
Salary for staff was similarly determined (although people like football and basketball coaches made significantly more than any academic).
This I do think is one thing that should seriously change.
glhs837
Power with Control
You can condense the first article thusly.
1. "Colleges and universities know that they can raise their prices and that students will still attend – in part because the government is handing them money."
2. "Professional, vocational, or technical training should be viewed as a viable alternative to a four-year degree, not a less worthy undertaking (as it is viewed by many now)."
3. "Expensive athletic programs (supposedly benefiting alumni more than students), trustees’ whims, and professors’ demands are just a few examples of ways that educational institutions have been known to cater to the needs of their customers at the expense of their students."
4. "As college student recruitment and admissions offices fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to obtain enough students to keep their schools operational, that escalating student acquisition cost contributes directly to the tuition costs that wildly continue to increase to levels an average American family will soon find unfathomable."
I note number four with interest, as we've just seen SMCM just drop some fees for first time students, they say to increase availability of education, but I suspect it's one more ploy to increase admissions, a place thay have beenm struggling mightily these last four-five years. And if they are dropping those fees for the students, someone somewhere is paying the bill.
And that's not even at one of the better schools. A year at NYU is roughly $70k per year.
https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg03_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=436
A school with costs of $20k a year is a cheapo. Practically community college.
Not necessarily. It could also be perceived value. As in, "See you getting this $75k year at school for $40k?" Makes it seem like a good deal when it's really not.
College cost so much because of the Gov loans ..... if Uncle Sugar wasn't giving out so much cash, cost would be more reasonable
