These pompous idiots had this coming for a long time! When a college costs $5k in the mid 70s, $8k four years later, $12k late 80s and $50k in 2012, $60k today —tell me what changed for such a dramatic increase in price in a school that is still the same size, same programs and student life. True story from family going to the same school. Nothing changed just supply & demand allowed them to ask more.
What changed is government backed loans. College tuition skyrocketed once that program was fully in place. It's a racket, with the colleges/universities and the federal government as co-conspirators.
What she said⬆️ whenever the government gets involved the bureaucracy and corruption come right behind. And they wanted the government to get involved in medicine. We can now see how that is working out. Federal grants in science and medicine, corrupted a system whose very foundation was thought to be incorruptible because it was founded on truth and verifiable science. The government needs an enema.
Wow! I had a similar experience, the only difference being that my folks felt if their kids wanted a college education, the kids should pay for it. Fortunately, I attended college long enough ago that tuition was reasonable ($100 per term or semester), so I could pay for most of it with part-time jobs and a frugal lifestyle, and only had to borrow $2000.
Well my fren, the good news is you’re here, … imagine, you could’ve been pulled into a witchcraft rpg cult in uni, mixed with the wrong crowd, ended up with BLM bumper stickers and crocs for daily footwear 🙂
What changed is administrative bloat. There are legions of administrative positions, and sub-positions, and sub-sub-positions that simply did not exist before. These people make BANK. And there are less and less actual professors and relative to the private sector, we make less.
The main school I work at is simply not hiring a new faculty after one leaves or retires but your damn sure they are hiring dozens of newly created administrative roles every year, and again these are pricey jobs.
A school where I teach at as a side gig is most taught by adjuncts. For example the department I teach in there has 4 full time faculty and 70 adjuncts. The full timers make about 60 to 70k and the adjuncts get 2800 per course. Every administrative position at my main school starts at 6 figures and, more importantly, they don’t actually do anything. They come up with BS extra tasks for faculty to do so they can put it on their resume and get raises/promotions or to move up to another school.
So, to answer your question, the extra costs of college are going to enrich the leeches that comprise the ever increasing administrative offices that exist now in pretty much all higher ed institutions. Added bonus, the quality of teaching has gone down with it, so you actually pay more to get less. But think about it, if you were getting paid 2800 for a course that you teach 2 or 3 times a week for 4 months, very few would be actually motivated enough to put out real genuine effort worthy of a 60k tuition bill.
I went to a state university back in the early '90's. The most I paid for a semester of classes was $600. $600 for the whole semester. Today's prices for classes is highway robbery.
These pompous idiots had this coming for a long time! When a college costs $5k in the mid 70s, $8k four years later, $12k late 80s and $50k in 2012, $60k today —tell me what changed for such a dramatic increase in price in a school that is still the same size, same programs and student life. True story from family going to the same school. Nothing changed just supply & demand allowed them to ask more.
What changed is government backed loans. College tuition skyrocketed once that program was fully in place. It's a racket, with the colleges/universities and the federal government as co-conspirators.
What she said⬆️ whenever the government gets involved the bureaucracy and corruption come right behind. And they wanted the government to get involved in medicine. We can now see how that is working out. Federal grants in science and medicine, corrupted a system whose very foundation was thought to be incorruptible because it was founded on truth and verifiable science. The government needs an enema.
Wow! I had a similar experience, the only difference being that my folks felt if their kids wanted a college education, the kids should pay for it. Fortunately, I attended college long enough ago that tuition was reasonable ($100 per term or semester), so I could pay for most of it with part-time jobs and a frugal lifestyle, and only had to borrow $2000.
Well my fren, the good news is you’re here, … imagine, you could’ve been pulled into a witchcraft rpg cult in uni, mixed with the wrong crowd, ended up with BLM bumper stickers and crocs for daily footwear 🙂
University professor here.
What changed is administrative bloat. There are legions of administrative positions, and sub-positions, and sub-sub-positions that simply did not exist before. These people make BANK. And there are less and less actual professors and relative to the private sector, we make less.
The main school I work at is simply not hiring a new faculty after one leaves or retires but your damn sure they are hiring dozens of newly created administrative roles every year, and again these are pricey jobs.
A school where I teach at as a side gig is most taught by adjuncts. For example the department I teach in there has 4 full time faculty and 70 adjuncts. The full timers make about 60 to 70k and the adjuncts get 2800 per course. Every administrative position at my main school starts at 6 figures and, more importantly, they don’t actually do anything. They come up with BS extra tasks for faculty to do so they can put it on their resume and get raises/promotions or to move up to another school.
So, to answer your question, the extra costs of college are going to enrich the leeches that comprise the ever increasing administrative offices that exist now in pretty much all higher ed institutions. Added bonus, the quality of teaching has gone down with it, so you actually pay more to get less. But think about it, if you were getting paid 2800 for a course that you teach 2 or 3 times a week for 4 months, very few would be actually motivated enough to put out real genuine effort worthy of a 60k tuition bill.
I went to a state university back in the early '90's. The most I paid for a semester of classes was $600. $600 for the whole semester. Today's prices for classes is highway robbery.