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Re:Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 ... by kryogen1c on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @08:51PM (#27828171)
> Part of the issue is that there is no mechanism to discourage universities from doing this

certainly not a root cause, but am enabling cause is whem student debt changed to not be dischargeable in bankruptcy. there is literally no longer a way to get rid of it.

seems like an obvious false dichotomy. perhaps we look at how much tuition "should" cost (god knows what that means) and make some percentage dischargeable. ~50%?

Re:Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 ... by clcaev on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @09:30PM (#27828470)
... and make the issuing university be on the hook for the other 50% that defaults