Hmmm. Went to Univ. of Okla. in the '60s. Cost $7/credit hr., no student fees, minimal fees for lab courses. Tuition/fees for a full time student less than $200. Today the cost to go to that same state uni is over$4000/semester. Tell me student loans are not poison.
Yes indeed. My last year as an UG my tuition was $125 for a full load.
I witnessed(in disbelief) the whole thing unfold. It was unbelievable at the University of Wisconsin system. Early 1990's (I think 1993) there was this big push to increase faculty/staff salaries...by a lot. Many doubled. The budgets exploded, the students were hit with huge increases in tuition. It never stopped. Every year higher and higher. What a mess!
Cost savings were knocking out the 24 hour libraries and reading rooms. And then came the buildings-they exploded like hallucinogenic mushrooms over the campus. First the stadiums, and jack the ticket price way beyond a student pocket, only the wealthy alums, and then build all the esoteric labs and classroom centers and and food courts and campus hall additions to cover every remaining blade of grass. Must have been frisbees, the administrations had to have just hated them.
As a retired public schoolteacher with 26 years experience, I say the best thing that could happen is for school choice to destroy public education!!
HAHAHA. I'm afraid that goes for our Universities as well.
Hmmm. Went to Univ. of Okla. in the '60s. Cost $7/credit hr., no student fees, minimal fees for lab courses. Tuition/fees for a full time student less than $200. Today the cost to go to that same state uni is over$4000/semester. Tell me student loans are not poison.
Yes indeed. My last year as an UG my tuition was $125 for a full load.
I witnessed(in disbelief) the whole thing unfold. It was unbelievable at the University of Wisconsin system. Early 1990's (I think 1993) there was this big push to increase faculty/staff salaries...by a lot. Many doubled. The budgets exploded, the students were hit with huge increases in tuition. It never stopped. Every year higher and higher. What a mess!
Cost savings were knocking out the 24 hour libraries and reading rooms. And then came the buildings-they exploded like hallucinogenic mushrooms over the campus. First the stadiums, and jack the ticket price way beyond a student pocket, only the wealthy alums, and then build all the esoteric labs and classroom centers and and food courts and campus hall additions to cover every remaining blade of grass. Must have been frisbees, the administrations had to have just hated them.