Also, if you want to know what is wrong about state universities in California, google "alpha regent" "richard blum," husband of Diane Feinstein, fearless fighter for the little guy.
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:58 PM, nathan tankus <[email protected]> wrote: > as the only one on Pen-l **actually in college** (as far as i know) > let me get in a word here. the increasing cost of college seems to me > primarily come from the desire of colleges (or more accurately, their > administrators) to continually renovate and (in some cases) expand. My > school for example, just announced a new business school (as if the > world needed another one) that they got a 5 million donation for, but > will almost certainly cost much more. it is also been renovating > multiple buildings and walk ways, seemingly independent of actual > need. my impression from others i know is that this pattern is quite > uniform. we should also keep in mind though, that large and small > repeated cuts in funding for education at all government levels puts > more of the burden on the student and thus makes costs seem higher. > when the City University of New York started charging tuition, it > wasn't because of any huge increase in costs, it was because of a > state budget "crisis". > > > -- > -Nathan Tankus > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
