Exactly. That's been the common thread here - all ideologically pure arguments to justify limiting access, but all ignore that elephant in the room. University of Virginia is the same, the majority of the budget was paid by the state of Virginia. Now its less than 7% due to all the cut backs. Given that public and land grant universities are major economic engines you'd think that the states would have figured out by now to keep the funding up.
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Any list that substantially mentions public universities (as this one > does) but does not mention the plummeting contribution of public > funding for said universities has a primary goal of blowing smoke up > your ass. > > 30 years ago, for instance, the University of Oregon had roughly 50% > of their budget funded by the state. Today, that number is 8%. You > pit that against increasing personnel costs, inflation, capital > expenses, etc and you're guaranteed large tuition increases without > any of the other factors cited in that article coming into play. > > Judah > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Interesting post in the context of conversation around the rising costs of >> education. >> >> http://bit.ly/MKpxDd >> >> -Cameron >> >> ... >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:352056 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
