• BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Economic conditions are by far the best measure of one’s opportunity in life and should be the standard we use to give the downtrodden a boost.

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      1 year ago

      That seems like a disaster with the student loan situation. You’re letting in people who will not only need loans, but BECAUSE they need loans.

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        1 year ago

        The answer is public funding for college.

        Just make it free or extremely cheap.

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          I agree that college should be publicly funded, but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards. Even CA, where college tution-free is in the state constitution, has found ways to get tens of thousand of dollars out of even residents in “fees.”

          Because fees aren’t tuition, apparently.

          I’ve been involved in higher ed for a long time, and I don’t know anyplace where government funding for college or university is increasing. Even the free CC idea seems to be a non-starter.

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            I think it’s because there are a couple of problems with higher education.

            One, it really doesn’t have any rules or regulations outside of FERPA laws. Everything else is the wild, wild west in terms of how colleges treat students, so that leaves a lot of room for colleges to mistreat or take advantage of students until they’re motivated enough to litigate, if that’s even possible for all but the wealthiest of students.

            Two, there’s no standards of higher education. There are standards for primary education, but little checks on the quality of your education beyond that. Only other way to “check if the product is good” is to take personal time showing up to lectures but that’s not really a feasible solution.

            Three, all colleges are for profit companies. Public or Private, it doesn’t matter, the only difference is the scale of greed. The real goal here should be to rip the money and profits out of the hands of executives and committee members. Personally, I’m in favor of eminent domaining all colleges.

            Four, why is a national good (the education of it’s citizens) being held by individual colleges? Seriously, the Department of Education has about two to three decades worth of work trying to catch up on all this BS.