Re:The Long Road to the Student Debt Crisis
by telchar on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @09:56AM
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That's just not true. Many costs scale with the number of students. Dorms, food, academic buildings, administrative workers, faculty (no you can't teach every class in batches of 500 like Econ 101, even then there is an army of graders), software licenses, land underneath the buildings, utilities and infrastructure, roads and parking, IT infrastructure and people to run it, grounds maintenance, student healthcare, etc. You can't just keep packing an arbitrary number of students into the same classroom.
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Re:The Long Road to the Student Debt Crisis
by carlmr on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @10:16AM
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An arbitrary number and not all costs misses the point that some costs scale roughly proportionally while others scale less than proportionally. Meaning tuition per student should definitely not increase with more students, there's actually more possibility for savings due to scale.
Re:The Long Road to the Student Debt Crisis
by telchar on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @03:34PM
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You're missing my initial point that with constant dollars from the state, more students means the state's money gets stretched thinner over the student body, so each student has to pay a larger percentage of the cost of their enrollment.