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Re:Nearly 5M Americans in Default on Student Loans by ghostcluster on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @11:19PM (#15919914)
> things get abused in unexpected ways while clever rent-seekers embed themselves in incredibly lucrative positions that you never knew you were creating

Don't forget the swelling of superfluous administration roles and salaries, including bureaucratic roles whose entire job entails manufacturing problems to justify the existence of their position. See: campus diversity officers https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/09/americ...

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Re:Nearly 5M Americans in Default on Student Loans by anonymous5133 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @11:26PM (#15919943)
When I was in school the common trend they had was requiring some foreign language course for ALL students. It was sold with all the traditional rhetoric of making students more well rounded but at the same time you aren't getting more well rounded if you are adding an extra 1 grand to your student loan. It never got implemented though because they didn't have enough budget to implement it.

Mind you, this requirement was in addition to all the existing courses you had to take (40 for a BA degree).

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