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Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin and get back to teaching
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Re: Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin and get back to teaching
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Sounds familiar. I went to a highly ranked private college where tuition went from 35k in 2007, to about 50k only 4 years later, and now it's around 60k I believe. The professors were mostly excellent and well known in their fields, but at the same time many departments were understaffed while the university spent 42 million dollars on an "Institute for Global Citizenship" that ended up being mostly unused, though it…
That may be true, but the average net price paid by Macalester students has been flat at $28k for the past three years. The increase in the nameplate cost is meaningless. Source: https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=macalester&s=all&id=...
I am surprised it's that low, but it's not meaningless if you're one of the ones paying full price. I / my parents paid the full amount of tuition all four years (minus 20,000$ or so for a national merit scholarship), in part because they had actually saved up.
Re: Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin and get back to teaching
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And then with 10-15k for overpriced student housing since most colleges make mandatory for Freshmen and sometimes even Sophomores. Then you might have to pay 1k a year to pay for a parking spot. 2-5k for cafeteria access. Add it all up and you've got 80k-100k(at 4%-9% interest) for four years at a state school. Its not impossible to get out from under but it represents a large delay, especially for degrees with low R…
>most colleges That's not even close to true. Most public schools don't have residency requirements. The ones that do normally have waivers that are easy to get. I've also never heard of a school with a residency requirement for sophomores.
Random googling turns up 87 colleges that have residency requirements[1]. So you're right that it isn't "most" but it is also not super rare. I'm just saying its a sneaky way for colleges to bump up costs. Most college students won't go through the work to get a waiver and will just go with the flow. Its like the difference between opt-in and opt-out.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/freshman-resi...
Re: Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin and get back to teaching
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I don't have an MBA, but I recognize that there are many aspects to running a good business, common to many businesses, that an MBA can probably help teach. But just like any other college degree, an MBA is a start or a rounding out, not the complete package in and of itself. I know of nobody sane who thinks that you don't need to know your business's specific needs backwards and forwards to run it well.
Well, I work at a big company and 1) I know many people who think like that (in some cases because they have such a position. Manager without knowing what their reports actually do) 2) The hiring decisions made -regularly- prove that this is in fact the overriding opinion in our management.
I refer you back to my qualifying adjective "sane." ;-) Sorry you have to deal with that.
Re: Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin and get back to teaching
#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
>most colleges That's not even close to true. Most public schools don't have residency requirements. The ones that do normally have waivers that are easy to get. I've also never heard of a school with a residency requirement for sophomores.
Random googling turns up 87 colleges that have residency requirements[1]. So you're right that it isn't "most" but it is also not super rare. I'm just saying its a sneaky way for colleges to bump up costs. Most college students won't go through the work to get a waiver and will just go with the flow. Its like the difference between opt-in and opt-out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/freshman-resi...
The article you posted says that "the vast majority" of those 87 schools are private.
I said most public schools.
I don't really care about the cost of private schools just like I don't care about the cost of private boarding high schools.
Re: Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin and get back to teaching
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Why do SF writers like putting their names on what's basically an office coffee mug joke?
I doubt Pournelle named it that himself. But it gets awkward to discuss something when somebody else has named it after you---I spent an hour as an undergraduate watching Shor simply call it "the factoring algorithm", trying to avoid the word "I".
Even Richard Hamming, who was famous for having said that greatness is having your name spelled in thelower-case, didn't name hamming distance; that was someone else at AT&T (Shannon, IIRC).