College Tuition

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

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Back when I started college I paid $85 for 16 hours of courses. Books for the courses cost about the same. Today tuition is almost $4000 and books cost almost $500. Based on inflation since the 1960s tuition should be around $1000. But colleges didn't offer vanity diplomas for Cuntology or Faggotometry or Negrological Arts & Sciences.

 

[Mike_Yates]

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Back when I started college I paid $85 for 16 hours of courses. Books for the courses cost about the same. Today tuition is almost $4000 and books cost almost $500. Based on inflation since the 1960s tuition should be around $1000. But colleges didn't offer vanity diplomas for Cuntology or Faggotometry or Negrological Arts & Sciences.

My parents told me that their parents almost always put money aside for college education of the people of their generation (baby boomers).

What ever happened to that?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

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Back when I started college I paid $85 for 16 hours of courses. Books for the courses cost about the same. Today tuition is almost $4000 and books cost almost $500. Based on inflation since the 1960s tuition should be around $1000. But colleges didn't offer vanity diplomas for Cuntology or Faggotometry or Negrological Arts & Sciences.

You are using the wrong inflation measure. The measure should be how much has government funneled to their buddies who run colleges...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

My parents told me that their parents almost always put money aside for college education of the people of their generation (baby boomers).

What ever happened to that?

Tuition leaped from $5 per credit hour to $500 and 100X the rate of inflation.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Because so much of it as underwritten by "free" money and unlimited loans with lax collection effort...



... even the GI Bill contributed it. Government altruism raises the cost of everything it seeks to improve access to leading to the clear need for even more assistance. We used to think, we need to help the poor get education to eliminate poverty, now we think the middle class needs help in order to prevent its elimination and that's precisely the sort of thinking that will kill it deader then the economy of Egypt.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

You are using the wrong inflation measure. The measure should be how much has government funneled to their buddies who run colleges...

The cost of books is what always blows my mind. Even worse, the state requires books, for state licenses, that are unknown in professional schools.

But folks are wising up. Sheepskins are ruinously expensive, pay less than unskilled labor, and admissions are falling.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Once you get past the 300-level, there is not much of a need for books.

I'm hoping that soon they go to tablet-form and low cost e-books, but frankly with all that government bait dangling in front of them, they'll inflate the hell out of them and give them a four-month expiration date.

 

[Jennifer]

I have started to rent my textbooks, for about 1/4 of the cost. My art history book is $200 new, I rented it for $50.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Once you get past the 300-level, there is not much of a need for books.

I'm hoping that soon they go to tablet-form and low cost e-books, but frankly with all that government bait dangling in front of them, they'll inflate the hell out of them and give them a four-month expiration date.

I spent several careers struggling to stay a step ahead of machines, and as the machines gained the high ground people became attendants to the machines. Its happened everywhere but education, so far, tho I look for a day of reckoning when teachers become a luxury we can no longer afford. And the tablet will then be king.

Another prophesy of mine: Look for executions to eliminate the cost of incarcerated felons.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I look more for a paradigm shift in sentencing and the idea that censure from a judge and the shame associated with it is proper punishment.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

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Lit glitch.