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Old 01-12-2018, 07:59 PM
 
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If only for big time programs with storied histories. And no, doing away with Title IX wouldn't make a dent in most schools budgets.

Questionable that you would zero in on that.
If you add up the amount of money spent on athletic programs that are in the red, it probably comes out to many billions of dollars annually.

I guess if it "wouldn't make a dent", then might as well just keep on wasting money, huh?

Sound logic right there.

Sounds like you'd be a great university president.
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Old 01-12-2018, 08:01 PM
 
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Businesses no longer want to invest in training people, they expect the colleges to pump out "turn key" employees.
Given the prices students pay for that education, I don't think that's really asking too much.
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Old 01-12-2018, 08:04 PM
 
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If you add up the amount of money spent on athletic programs that are in the red, it probably comes out to many billions of dollars annually.

I guess if it "wouldn't make a dent", then might as well just keep on wasting money, huh?

Sound logic right there.

Sounds like you'd be a great university president.
Do you have any concrete numbers to back up your point? How much money do you really think a university spends on sports like water polo? I'm guessing not much compared to the rest of the budget.
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Old 01-12-2018, 08:28 PM
 
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What about the utterly cynical franchised diploma mills like University of Arizona and National University that boast about how few "irrelevant" classes their night-school crowd has to take?
University of Phoenix. U of Arizona is a real place.

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("'Whom are you?' he asked politely, for he had been to night school." - someone like Thornton Wilder.)
Right, we all make mistakes.
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Old 01-12-2018, 09:00 PM
 
Location: Aurora Denveralis
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University of Phoenix.
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Old 01-13-2018, 04:46 PM
 
Location: East TN
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Define rich.

Family of four making $60,000 with one in college goes to UC for free. Higher income, but not rich, family of four making $100,000 would pay the full price of around $14,000. I wouldn't call either rich. The latter can do what I did and pay for it. After freshman year I didn't get any need-based aid. Parents paid for my car insurance the one year I had a car, my medical insurance, and my cell phone. I took out loans and worked to pay for tuition, books, rent, food, spending money.

Who cares if it's double the income of some people. One dollar is more income than some people. That doesn't mean it's a lot of money. Median earnings of a college graduate will more than pay for that in a year over what someone with a high school diploma has, so no, not particularly expensive.
:having a great deal of money

Rich people get to go to school for free.
They have parents that can pay for a car, insurance, phone.
They can get loans, because their parents can sign for them.

Who cares? Apparently, no one.
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Old 01-13-2018, 06:39 PM
 
Location: Aurora Denveralis
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Rich people get to go to school for free.
They have parents that can pay for a car, insurance, phone.
They can get loans, because their parents can sign for them.

Who cares? Apparently, no one.
Who is it that should?

You also are using the word "free" a bit oddly.
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Old 01-13-2018, 07:44 PM
 
Location: The analog world
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:having a great deal of money

Rich people get to go to school for free.
They have parents that can pay for a car, insurance, phone.
They can get loans, because their parents can sign for them.

Who cares? Apparently, no one.
People with resources pay for their children to attend school. They do not sign for loans.
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Old 01-14-2018, 08:33 AM
 
Location: Paranoid State
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Government-backed student loans are certainly fuel to the fire, but I don't see them as a particularly direct cause of rising college costs.
See for example

Credit Supply and the Rise in College Tuition: Evidence from the Expansion in Federal Student Aid Programs
https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibr...orts/sr733.pdf

Accounting for the Rise in College Tuition
http://www.nber.org/chapters/c13711.pdf

Student Loans May Be Driving the Tuition Explosion
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...loans-fed-says

Student Loan Subsidies Cause Almost All of the Increase in Tuition
https://fee.org/articles/student-loa...se-in-tuition/

Our Greedy Colleges - NYTimes.com

Does Federal Student Aid Cause Tuition Increases?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/akelly/.../#25fb44de21e0

How Unlimited Student Loans Drive Up Tuition
https://www.forbes.com/sites/preston.../#3aed8f9d52b6

The Real Reasons Why College Tuition is So High and What you Can Do About it - The Scholarship System

Federal Reserve report finds link between increased federal aid, rising tuition | News for College Students | USA TODAY College

Study: Yes, Student Loans Are Making College More Expensive - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Are Student Loans Causing College Tuitions to Skyrocket? | Credit.com

Federal student loans may cause high college tuition prices - Business Insider

HOW FEDERAL STUDENT LOANS INCREASE TUITION AND DECREASE AID

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/...drives-tuition
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Old 01-14-2018, 08:39 AM
 
Location: Paranoid State
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Businesses no longer want to invest in training people, they expect the colleges to pump out "turn key" employees.
False. Businesses don't expect anything.

It is the responsibility of student to acquire both education and relevant job skills. If the student does so, in the current job market the student will be showered with opportunities. If the student fails to do so, well, at least they had 4 years of partying, sex, drugs, & rock'n'roll.
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