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In a shift from a mere couple of years ago, when a majority of Republican-Americans thought that higher education was a good thing, the majority of them now believe the opposite.
A Pew Research Center survey published Monday revealed voters have grown apart in their support of secondary education since the 2016 presidential election season, when a majority of Democratic and Republican Americans agreed the nation’s universities serve as a benefit for the U.S. Whereas 54 percent of Republicans said "colleges and universities had a positive impact on the way things were going in the country" in 2015, the majority now believe the opposite, with 58 percent saying such institutions negatively impact the state of the union.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @04:02PM (5 children)
College costs are increasing because the government spends less money subsidizing them and the colleges are run by people that assume everybody is getting financial aid. There's things like those massive sports ball stadiums with their massive TV screens and various unecessarily expensive buildings that are used mostly as a way of looking really important.
I know of colleges locally where they've tacked on an extra $100 a quarter per student in order to build facilities that won't be completed for another 10 years.
Demand factors into it, but it's hardly the thing that's causing the rise in cost of college. The bigger issues are mismanagement and the people who confuse price with value. I heard from a Reed graduate recently that assumed that because he paid more per year than I did for my whole undergraduate degree that he got a better education. Which is also a part of the problem, people failing to take into consideration the value proposition of a given college. Going to an ivy league school can be expensive if you get in, but it's not as simple as just comparing the costs, you also meet people that can help you along the way. And some colleges do a better of helping with the transition.
(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Tuesday July 11 2017, @11:50PM (4 children)
I think you'll find it is the opposite. That college costs are increasing because the government is spending more and more money to subsidize them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @12:59AM (3 children)
I am sure that you will find the opposite of khallow's opposite. http://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/funding-down-tuition-up [cbpp.org]
Look! Data!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @01:09AM (1 child)
The government has hidden its subsidies in the form of student loans, which are given away like cheap candy, and which cannot be declared as part of bankruptcy proceedings.
The direct funding decreases, but the indirect funding increases.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday July 12 2017, @03:20AM
This. If the US had started in 1970 and just outright eliminated the states' direct funding of college (which let us note only covers a portion of colleges), we still won't get the massive increase in college costs that has happened since (adjusted for inflation, it's more than tripled since). We also wouldn't get more in US student loan debt than total credit card debt for the entire US population.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @02:47AM
Whaaaaa???
Khallow was talking out of his ass based on the latest talk radio show that ranted about elitist "education"??? SHOCKED! That is what I am. Shocked.
Khallow and Jmorris, either complete and utter idiots that happen to own functional brains, or total fucking shills trying to split this community apart.