College May Not Be Worth It Anymore

Re:College May Not Be Worth It Anymore by vlan0 on Thursday May 17, 2018 @12:44PM (#17092967)

>well-meaning attempts to make college loans available to everyone for everything seem to have massively bloated the cost of education to a crippling degree.

I'm not so sure about this as a cause. If you look at the costs for colleges that have increased over time, you can start to see where a lot of this money is going. Spending on new and maintaining aging technology is increased. And now you have entire departments like Title IX that never existed in prior school models.

And with expansion, additional management overhead now exists. There is seemly at least a Director of <insert title here> for everything.

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Re:College May Not Be Worth It Anymore by ericb on Thursday May 17, 2018 @01:20PM (#17093301)

> There is seemly at least a Director of <insert title here> for everything.

I would argue some of the things you list as causes of increasing tuition are the effects of tuition surpluses from additional income from a trillion in student loans.

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Re:College May Not Be Worth It Anymore by vlan0 on Friday May 18, 2018 @07:05AM (#17100434)

I would agree. I've been in higher ed for the last 10 years and can tell you there are a lot of compounding factors that gotten us in this mess of high costs.

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