That's what's wrong with us old farts. We snatched away all the benefits for the younger generation, got stingy with taxes, and then told them "hahah, now you try getting ahead."Now, I didn’t go to the UW. But I’m going down Husky memory lane because last week The Seattle Times featured a crop of harried UW students looking rueful and broke. The story said skeptical state legislators often say how “they worked their way through college. And then they ask: Why don’t students do that today?”
Of all our delusions, we old farts cling to this bootstrap one the most. We worked our way up on sweat and chicken grease, we say. Can’t this generation? What’s wrong with them?
What’s wrong is that after we got ours, we cut it off for them.
The reason a summer at KFC could pay for a year of UW med school in 1981 isn’t that we were so hardworking and industrious. It’s that taxpayers back then picked up 90 percent of the tab. We weren’t Horatio Algers. We were socialists.
Today, the public picks up only 30 percent of UW tuition, and dropping.
Where the hell is all that money going?I attended the University of Minnesota.
Figured in 2005 dollars, the support given the University by the State is down a bit.
The tuition has entered orbit. The problem is not the suppport afforded by those who support but the outlandish rise in cost by those who take the cash.
Minnesota has changed from quarterly schedule to semesters. In 1971, the quarterly cost for tuition was about $132 if I'm remembering it right. I do recall that the $300 I thought might pay for the first year would not be enough.
That one-year cost has risen to about $12,000. It's not the support from the state, it's the cost of the institutions.
http://www.academic.umn.edu/img/assets/17505/3-3.14 StateTax6105.pdf
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That's what's wrong with us old farts. We snatched away all the benefits for the younger generation, got stingy with taxes, and then told them "hahah, now you try getting ahead."
It's like taking away all the cheese and expecting the mouse to try to eat. There's no cheese left, we've hoarded it all. But it's the mouse's fault that they can't find anything to eat. That's what we're doing to the youth of today.
College tuition isn't going up because of student loans. It's because taxpayers no longer fund college like they used to. We all benefited from socialism but now we don't want anyone else to. WTF...
Where the hell is all that money going?
This might give you a clue: Virginia Tech Public Salaries - Public Salaries Database - CollegiateTimes.comWhere the hell is all that money going?
Damn. I can't imagine what their university system's chancellor-equivalent earns.This might give you a clue: Virginia Tech Public Salaries - Public Salaries Database - CollegiateTimes.com
This might give you a clue: Virginia Tech Public Salaries - Public Salaries Database - CollegiateTimes.com
That particular list is modest. You should take a look at, say, UCLA. It can be hard to find, but it's public information.Damn. I can't imagine what their university system's chancellor-equivalent earns.
...And one should expect awfully good service. I'm not picking on VA Tech - they're really on the lower end. It's not only the heavy, six figure salaries. It's spending on a grand scale throughout the system in this country.Holy crap! These people are getting paid a whole pile of money to make each other feel good.
It seems like they should be wearing leather micro skirts and working at midnight downtown.
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That's what's wrong with us old farts. We snatched away all the benefits for the younger generation, got stingy with taxes, and then told them "hahah, now you try getting ahead."
It's like taking away all the cheese and expecting the mouse to try to eat. There's no cheese left, we've hoarded it all. But it's the mouse's fault that they can't find anything to eat. That's what we're doing to the youth of today.
College tuition isn't going up because of student loans. It's because taxpayers no longer fund college like they used to. We all benefited from socialism but now we don't want anyone else to. WTF...
funding college isnt socialism or protectionism,rather its seen as a country improving its competiveness.
think about it,if a population ismore educated,its more productive and more competitive,and the the benefit always outweighs the cost.id be more in favor of basic collegesand trade scgools being govt funded like general education,and only higher end universities being pay to attend,like harvard or yale.
...And one should expect awfully good service. I'm not picking on VA Tech - they're really on the lower end. It's not only the heavy, six figure salaries. It's spending on a grand scale throughout the system in this country.
The money spent is astronomical if you consider the source and it's purported purpose. They're supposed to be institutions of higher learning. They've turned it into a country club for the favored faculty and those in programs garnering attention and money.When I was in school, there was a new athletic center built at a pretty high cost for the time. The price tag escapes me right now. The week after the opening, this was before the age of computers, a student was complaining in a lecture hall that the volume of the encyclopedia needed for a paper was missing from the Library.
A voice from the back of the room cried out, "Yeah, but we have a hell of weight room!"
Until that moment, it had not occurred to me that an athletic center was not a real needed part of my education, but an encyclopedia was.
Kind of reveals how badly I needed that encyclopedia.
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