“Students are paying more, and a greater share of the costs, but are arguably getting less,”
File this under "Um...Duh."
The Times reports that a study by the Delta Project describes what every student who is either attending or has attended college in the last 15 years already knows: Students are covering a huge share of their college education, aren't getting their money's worth in terms of services, and, after college, aren't able to pay off the loans . In other words, the US has taken on the medieval feudal system: which makes one enslaved to a lord on account of their debt. Yup, we are working our college educated asses off so that the children of banking families can have ponies for Christmas.
It's often entertaining to see the mainstream media peer into Higher Education news. When CNN or the Times reports on primary and secondary edu-ma-cation, they usually do so from the point of the "concerned parent." And then they wonder why young people don't care about their shitty news. However, when MSM (mainstream media) reports on higher education, its often as if they are peering into a world they know so little about. It's as if their writers have formed a disconnect between their years at university and their professional life thereafter.
But this news report isn't some surprise to college students. I have friends who have college debt in the range of $0.01-$70,000. That's US dollars, not pesos.
But good news! Ok, I'm kidding. It's actually bad news. David Patterson is going to cut state funding to CUNY by 102 million dollars by 2010, which I have posted about here. Feel free to hate on him. Really, he isn't just the player, he's the entire game.
You can find and contact your NY state senator here. They vote on the governor's budget proposals.
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