re: #80 boxhead

Look, way back when I graduated I had some debt but it was small compared to today’s graduates, and I was able to pay them off in a couple of years.

College costs are coming under more and more scrutiny. Faculty have pointed out that the costs are not be driven by the teaching faculty but rather by “overhead”. Many faculty have written about the onslaught of “deanlets” and committees… Also, one thing that is occurring these days has been the rising infrastructure costs due to expansion.

I look at higher ed like I do SoCal real-estate - bubble driven.

The idea of universal college education is a utopian idea. Reality demands something else.

I would rather see people in apprenticeships after graduating from H.S. as literate, numerate, and socially aware members of their community, rather than having to spend tens of thousands of dollars whirling away for 4 years trying to make up for the lost time in H.S.