Rising costs could push college out of reach

[dgriffin]

Rising costs could push college out of reach


www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/12/03/college.costs/


(CNN) -- The cost of attending college has risen nearly three times the rate of the cost of living, and could eventually put higher education out of reach for most Americans, according to a National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education report released Wednesday.
The price to attend college, adjusted for inflation, rose 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, according to a report.

The price to attend college, adjusted for inflation, rose 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, according to a report.

The problem could affect the United States' global competitiveness, the center said in its biennial report.


Maybe not. Inefficiency is not competitive, and it is inefficient to be waited upon by a college graduate at McDonald's.

I worked hard for and value my college education, but something is wrong when parents and children mortgage their futures and pay thousands to be taught by graduate assistants and prepared for jobs that are leaving the country on the next boat.

And something is wrong when tuition rises at triple the rate of family median income. Colleges become more aggressive about the tuition they ask when such huge bills cause parents to be more interested in the monthly payment than the total, similar to buying a car or a home.

[Swimmy]

But if you're a foreign student wishing to go to an American college, Congress will pay for you to go for free! But those stupid Americans will have to pay out the nose.

[dgriffin]

Actually, if we can all get jobs mowing lawns at the colleges, we'll have discovered an area of American Business that will stay on this side of the ocean. After all, College America is already unionized like the Big Three, knows how to get grants from the government, and over-compensates it's executives like IBM.
Swimmy, you're probably too young to remember when a neat little cottage industry in east and west Utica was housing students from MVCC. That's before the college realized it was passing up a wonderful and profitable opportunity and built their own "hotels." Profitable, because your guests cleaned up after themselves (or didn't.)