Yeah…you are right. I should have said the cost of educating a student…hasn’t gone up much. Its the cost of running a university that has gone up…not the cost of education as a whole.
It’s not just administrative costs that are to blame. The amount of money that goes into supporting sports as well as into the social aspects of so-called “college life.” It’s a joke, and a very expensive one at that. The one silver lining is that this pandemic could very well radically change the way education is done at every level.
My daughter is not going back. Her Sr. Year and she chose to learn at home. She chose to protect her and her mom vs going back on campus. Her classes are all on line…so why go sit in a dorm for online classes.
WuWei
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An Ivy League education used to be the mark of something besides crit cringe…
The Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science will be “test-optional for all applicants,” meaning that applicants will no longer have to send SAT and ACT scores.
"Our review is purposeful and nuanced—respecting varied backgrounds, voices and experiences
Of course Columbia is the home of it all…
zantax
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This CRT crap getting into the real sciences isn’t going to turn out well.
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Meh standardized testing does little to indicate an analytical mind or a scientific mind for that matter.
Most jobs don’t require analytical minds or scientific thinking. The fact is the whole higher ed system is largely flawed.
I disagree that most jobs don’t require analytical minds. Analysis doesn’t necessarily mean reacting to complex problems but simple ones too
Let’s then rephrase it as “higher level analytical thinking.” We are talking about people going to college. Only about 6% of US jobs are in STEM professions:
https://tsaweb.org/teams/competitors/stem-careers
What percentage of the workforce do you believe requires higher level analytical thinking, which would NECESSITATE four years of applicable course work? The actual fact is that most jobs people get college degrees for could easily be accomplished just as proficiently with a few weeks or a few months of training.
Gaius
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From an economics standpoint
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When governments make something “free” or subisidize it via student aid etc., the demand curve ceases to function on the normal fashion and prices skyrocket.
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Likewise on the supply side. The English dept, or whatever, has zero profit motive to streamline and in fact faces negative 100% interest rate any savings it ever realizes. (very inflationary)
WuWei
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Home of The Frankfurt School. A veritable crit factory.
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From the link:
the Freedom Economy Index (FEI), a joint project of job recruiting service RedBalloon and PublicSquare, surveyed opinions from 70,000 small businesses between Oct. 25 and Oct. 30, with 905 respondents, a 3% margin of error and a 95% confidence level.
When asked about the “return on investment” of higher education, a whopping 67% of participating employers responded “strongly no” when asked if they believed institutions of higher education were “graduating students with relevant skills that today’s business community needs.”
An additional 24.4% responded with “somewhat no” while the remaining 8.7% responded either “somewhat yes,” “strongly yes,” or “other.”
Less than 10% of employers responded yes. But aren’t we told by forum libs how vital it is to learn about LGBTQ+ and CRT? That knowledge is supposed to be absolutely vital to functioning in the world today, isn’t it? 
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