Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100k a Year. How Did This Happen?

Re:Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100k a Year. How Did This... by pc86 on Friday April 05, 2024 @03:17PM (#39946018)

#2 and #3 both have simple answers - "Nothing," and "Eliminate the free money buffet of federally guaranteed loans that can't be discharged by anything short of death."

"Eliminate 80% of administrators" would also help with #3 but there's no incentive to do that, especially without the more direct answer to #3 happening first.

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Re:Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100k a Year. How Did This... by coffeebeqn on Friday April 05, 2024 @09:18PM (#39949145)

That’s just attacking the bottom of the ladder. Taking a resource away from the common people is not a nice policy to pursue. The schools are the ones raising prices. What exactly about teaching a bunch of kids in one room at a time has gotten (checks notes) 300%??? more expensive in the last 20 years?

The workforce is not even doing that good, the competition for few permanent positions is fierce and the compensation outside of management is low compared to other industries.

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Re:Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100k a Year. How Did This... by ravelfan on Saturday April 06, 2024 @09:10AM (#39952205)

IMO there is no hope. We have a culture that values college degrees, no matter how useless, as some kind of high moral good.

To take away student loans then is a form of evil.

First, you would have to ban discrimination against people without college degrees.

You can't discriminate against people without college degrees and then complain college degrees are expensive lol.

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