University of Calif. OKs 32 percent tuition hike, page 1
Pages:
ATS Members have flagged this thread 2 times
Topic started on 19-11-2009 @ 11:19 PM by Icarus Rising

University of Calif. OKs 32 percent tuition hike


www.msnbc.msn.com
The governing board of the University of California approved a $2,500 student fee increase Thursday after two days of tense campus protests across the state.

The vote by the Board of Regents in a windowless University of California, Los Angeles, meeting room took place as the drone of protesters could be heard from a plaza outside. Scores of police in riot gear guarded the building.

...undergraduate education at California's premier public schools to over $10,000 a year...

(visit the link for the full news article)


reply posted on 20-11-2009 @ 02:13 AM by silent thunder
I have sympathy for those seeking higher education and feeling angered by the tuition hike. But the fact of the matter is that the entire higher education system needs a big overhaul. People go into 6-figure debt and come out totally unable to find a job in most cases.

Most of the things you can study at university are totally useless from a job-hunting perspective: Sociology and Women's Studies don't put bread on the table. Even the hard science majors are having trouble finding work as it is increasingly shipped overseas.

Yeah, yeah, an education is about improving yourself, not finding a job...heard that one many a time...tell that to the fifty million Americans who struggled to find enough food to eat last year. Intellectual enlightenment is all well and good in times of prosperity, but people need to worry about EATING FIRST in darker times. And darker times are precisely where we are headed for.

It's only really since the post-WWII era that even a sizable minority of the population aspired to higher education. To have half the country spending four years of their lives partying day and night and studying material that leads up a jobless dead-end alley is beyond ludicrous. We are seeing the breakdown of this system because, in the end, its a fundamentally ridiculous system.

I believe wholeheartedly in the power and importance of knowledge, but with the Internet and other forms of communication/interaction, there must be more efficient and rational ways to achieve it. And as stated above the entire concept of what is studied at colleges and universities needs to be revamped so that most people can find some way to make the investment of time and money worthwhile. There will always be a place for the liberal arts, high philosophy, and theoretical studies...but to expect that 40% or more of the population can spend years going into hock to study non-practical fields is not a tenable proposition.



reply posted on 20-11-2009 @ 09:59 AM by Icarus Rising
reply to post by silent thunder


I agree that the education system does not produce leaders and innovators anymore, if it ever did. That is part of the conspiracy, imo, to create a nation of followers enslaved to their tuition debt. That system is now collapsing under its own weight all around us.
Pages:     ^^TOP^^



Russian scientists reach buried Antarctic Lake Vostok
  Posted 7 days ago with 83 member flags
Renowned Geophysicist Says Strange Sky Sounds Are Real
  Posted 2 days ago with 74 member flags
Monsanto quits as GM results announced (EUROPE)
  Posted 8 days ago with 72 member flags
Ayatollah: Kill all Jews, annihilate Israel
  Posted 7 days ago with 49 member flags
Is it morally wrong to take a life? Not really, say bioethicists
  Posted 14 days ago with 37 member flags