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7 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Building a climbing wall has jack shit to do with why people can’t afford tuition. 

Do you know why students can’t afford tuition or will you keep blaming walls and new buildings (which isn’t why)?

Setting aside tuition momentarily; I would say that for students from low SES a greater barrier might be the non-tuition costs such as living expenses, etc.

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1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said:

This clip is not some critique of academia by practical businessmen. This is a bit of play-acting created by all sorts of people. English major script writers. Drama school actors who had to audition against hordes of competitors but who are wired not to care. Careful competent technical crew. Financing and distribution by business types, promotion by art and marketing people. Rodney himself is doing a bit, he's imitating an imaginary self-made man of business, when he actually accomplished something far harder-- making a living as a comedian. The clip is a variation of the pie in the face of the snobby character. We like Rodney for that. 

The MG abuse (is that a real MG?) is inexcusable.

something something...satire.   Something, something...truth in art.

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On 2/8/2024 at 1:10 PM, RDCanecutter said:

We still talking about fraud any? In my International Career of Mystery I've seen a variety.

-- regular-ass wormy scared student cheating, from traditional to online

-- a drunken professor who confessed that he'd done his Doctoral thesis by copying one he'd found in East Germany

-- Lying-ass research scientists who faked the data

-- One colleague who supposedly was supposed to give a talk in the Czech Republic, I am convinced she pocketed the plane fare and stayed home

 

I once did this, but it was San Antonio instead of the Czech Republic.

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On 2/8/2024 at 6:35 AM, TwiceHorn said:

Question.  Student loans have been around for much longer than they have been a problem.

Was there a somewhat recent loosening of lending standards?  

Because the other problem, probably the bigger one, is the withdrawal of support of state universities by states and the deregulation of tuition that occurred in most places in the early aughts.  And that let tuition spiral upward across the board, to be met with loan money.

 

I can't recall if this has been mentioned yet, but around the same time was the revision to the bankruptcy code that, among other things, made it nearly impossible to discharge student loans.   That alone accounts for the largest part of the shitfest, in my opinion.   Student loans became some of the most attractive lending available overnight.  Can you imagine the smiles on the faces of lenders knowing that no one can run away from their loans?  The feds literally unleashed a bunch of sharks on poor and middle-class families, and teenagers in particular.  

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22 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

I once did this, but it was San Antonio instead of the Czech Republic.

Yeah, in her case, something weird happened. I suspect it was mundane like not bothering to get a passport in time.

She came back from the Czech Republic, no pics to show, no funny stories about anything new. I asked her what she saw. Oh she stayed in the hotel the whole time. Well what was the food like? It was food. What kind of money do they use there, Euros, what? Well. it was basically just money.

I'm like, she didn't watch Rocky.

I liked her and didn't want to put her on the hot seat, so I just let it drop. There was lots of weird shit at that place. But when they gave me a mini-grant to try to set up study abroad swaps in Mexico, my Chair asked to see photos. I took about 700.

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19 hours ago, Samson's Wig said:

I can't recall if this has been mentioned yet, but around the same time was the revision to the bankruptcy code that, among other things, made it nearly impossible to discharge student loans.   That alone accounts for the largest part of the shitfest, in my opinion.   Student loans became some of the most attractive lending available overnight.  Can you imagine the smiles on the faces of lenders knowing that no one can run away from their loans?  The feds literally unleashed a bunch of sharks on poor and middle-class families, and teenagers in particular.  

Should have caught that, yes, 2005,right about the time of tuition deregulation. 

BAPCPA amended § 523(a)(8) to broaden the types of educational ("student") loans that cannot be discharged in bankruptcy absent proof of "undue hardship." The nature of the lender is no longer relevant. Thus, even loans from "for-profit" or "non-governmental" entities are not dischargeable.

 

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27 minutes ago, gurt said:

is it fair to say that this same thing happened everywhere in the country as an explanation to why costs have gone up nationwide?

I think so but can't cite a source. A quick search only refers to Texas, though. 

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4 hours ago, gurt said:

What changed in 2003 that cut gov't funding?  I haven't heard about that, looking to read up on it

In Texas, universities literally used to have to get legislative approval (not from just some committee, the whole legislature voted)  to raise tuition, which absolutely no one liked. 

When the lege voted to allow schools to set their own tuition, they traded that for lower funding.  

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46 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

In Texas, universities literally used to have to get legislative approval (not from just some committee, the whole legislature voted)  to raise tuition, which absolutely no one liked. 

When the lege voted to allow schools to set their own tuition, they traded that for lower funding.  

Yeah, I remember my dad saying everyone was protesting back in the 70s when it went from 4 to 12 dollars a credit hour.  

Where did the school administrations fall on this issue?  Were they in favor of setting their own rates?

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4 minutes ago, gurt said:

Where did the school administrations fall on this issue?  Were they in favor of setting their own rates?

Overwhelmingly.  Everyone thought this was a great idea.  Turned out to only be great if you had already bought into the Texas Tomorrow Fund.

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Yeah, I remember my dad saying everyone was protesting back in the 70s when it went from 4 to 12 dollars a credit hour.  
Where did the school administrations fall on this issue?  Were they in favor of setting their own rates?

That 4 to 12 raise was in 1986.
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