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Tuition and fees at Virginia’s colleges and universities are outpacing the rise in family incomes, and administrative costs also are rising faster than instructional spending.
That’s according to a study of the state’s 15 public and 24 private schools by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, which shows that tuition and fees at 17 schools total more than 40 percent of Virginians’ median household income, up from 10 schools in 2004.
Despite the state’s push to increase degrees in sciences and mathematics, more than a third of the schools in the study don’t require any coursework in college-level math, and none requires economics, the report said. Only two universities, James Madison and Regent, require a survey of American government or history.
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No surprise!
No surprise here! When you have college presidents making $500-700K per year (more than the president of the country) and professors in the $200 K range what do you expect. As long as they have other people's money to spend it will never change. It is time to get educators out of the business of running colleges and put a businessman in place.
As long as the public feels
As long as the public feels that every high school student deserves a college degree, the law of supply and demand will drive prices up. They will learn that if they take Economics 101. And generating $100,000 or more in student loan debt for a degree that leaves you no more employable than when you started is not really smart, now, is it.
Rise of State School Costs
Why not analyze and make public how, why, and where the costs are rising? Then study ways in which these increases can not only be brought under control but reversed. While academic freedom is fine, controls must play a part to ensure fiscal responsibility. Perhaps some sort of board at each State institution with business management "smarts" could play a part and play an overwatch, advisory, etc. function . . . and keep the Public informed.
Rising cost of college
Rising post secondary education costs are just another example of academics failure to pragmatically recognize real world truths. Most sit in their isolated worlds and pontificate about how the rest of us should think, work and live, all the while ignoring the reality in which the rest of us must function. I have endured thousands of hours of their self righteous, myopic drivel. I learned never to challenge their dogma and to “blow sunshine” at them or I would incur their irrational wrath when grades are submitted. Students are coerced into regurgitating the designated information. If student deviate from the instructor’s mandatory path, they do so at their own peril. The college and university system is broken on a number of levels.
Truths be told
As they are in this article,obviously spoken by someone who has "been there".Shame that it is anonymous lol Here is the real truth of many problems in just a few words.Impressive and well said.
Not teaching how to think
99% of all the effort goes into teaching a student what to think rather than how to think. Most arrive at college without skills to analyze a complex topic and create their own rational conclusions and for many, they leave in the same condition.
What would you expect
Considering our academic goals are based on passing a multiple choice test that shows the effectiveness of teaching children how to take and pass the test, where in the world would they learn analyzation skills? We don't have time for independent thinking, analyzing, or evaluation. That could lead to questioning authority and if that occurred the whole apple cart might tip over.