[quote=livinincali][quote=CA renter]
We desperately need to direct more public funding to education instead of constantly starting extremely costly wars around the world.[/quote]
No we need to figure out ways to make college cheaper not throw more money at the universities so they can hire more overpaid administrators and build more useless entertainment type complexes. Undergraduate math, undergraduate chemistry, and undergraduate just about anything hasn’t changed much in the past 50 years. Why does it cost so much more to teach the same material in the same classrooms with the same teachers. As online technology improves it should be costing less to learn and take something like Calculus 101, but instead it costs 200,300,500% more than it did just 10-20 years ago.
The question become why? While there might be some nuances and details,it really boils down to an unlimited supply of money that you can borrow and pay back in some distant future.[/quote]
From what I understand, the #1 reason for the growing costs is the decline in state spending on public universities/colleges.
But I totally agree with you on the ridiculous sums paid to many administrators and some coaches, too. The professors have been suffering greatly over the years, with many positions that were once tenured now going to adjuncts/assistant professors who barely make over minimum wage and often can’t get full-time hours, at that. This needs to be changed completely around.
And don’t get me started on athletics and other grand expenditures that are supposed to raise the status of the institutions (things like mega complexes; regular renovations, even when they’re not needed; high-end architecture, etc.).
Getting rid of the notion that everybody needs to get student loans in order to go to college would go a long way toward solving the problem, too, IMHO. We need more grants and scholarships that are based on academic merit vs. athletic prowess.
