WVU Eliminating Degree Programs-Future of Higher Ed
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The impact of tons of federal money flowing into universities via student loans and faculty grants has contributed greatly to the expansion of programs that could not be sustained.
The moral hazard created by student loan programs has allowed universities to increase tuition/fees /board/spending without regard to any performance benchmarks or claw back of payments. The victims are students and taxpayers.
yeah, **** all the data that shows its actually the fault of state governments, blame the thing that makes it so college doesn't just become the realm of the rich.
Where would the money come from in order for the state of Iowa to have maintained covering 70% of ISU's operating budget over all those years?
I think the voters have thought about it, and they have decided that they don't want state higher education degrees that are highly subsidized by tax dollars.
Colleges need to adapt...public, private, large, small. Some of them are...expanding much less expensive AA degrees with more employable trade-like options that can be finished in less than 2 years.
A friend's son recently completed Mercedes-Benz mechanic school...about a year of schooling and then an internship. I think MB paid for mostly everything. He is about 3 years in, and his salary is nearly six figures in Austin. And it's not all grease monkey work...lots of computer/tech stuff. No public funds needed.
Probably some of that giant surplus the state officials love to brag about (or that they have used as an excuse to hand out tax cuts, or give money to private k-12 schools)
I listened to an interview the other day with the WVU chancellor. Very interesting what's happening with the dynamics of upper education. One thing which REALLY caught my ear was an inference between WVU and Kansas for enabling remote language studies. This type of partnering can really work for the B12. Especially, if you can manage remote education.
What's wrong with tax cuts? You know that you can give that money back to ISU's (or any other school's) scholarship funds.
Tech schools offer some of that "softer side" of good pay, too. However, I see some differences in the people I work with where 4-years of logic, Philosophy, propaganda analysis, statistics, critical and creative writing, research, and even "geology" were all part of their curriculum.
You asked where that money would have come from. Now you're moving the goalposts. You can't clutch your pearls about "where would the money come from" while also ignoring things that take revenue away.
It's all about priorities, and the party in control of our state's government has made it clear that Iowa's K-12 schools and Regent universities are no longer a priority.
Did when Covid and Anti-foreigner sentiment hit the U.S. It dropped almost 10% from the high.
The Iowa Tuition Grant is bipartisan and goes back decades. Very different from the ideologically-driven Catholic school giveaway of 2023.
TCU is a quarter million dollars right now for a bachelors and not generally ranked any higher than ISU. I happened to look up some tuition #s during realignment and found they were ranked among the absolute worst values.
There's no way somebody is getting a return on the difference between that and in state tuition at any decent state college. For a huge # of people in state tuition is still a great value vs no college both in terms of investment and an enriched life.
Or maybe the voters of your state who elected your state government don't like the direction those institutions are taking.
That's not sustainable either, although it might survive longer than the state schools.
