| Interesting that Canada acted on the matter. But not surprising given the situation here in the US. Hopefully the Canadians action might indirectly pressure our seemingly deaf, dumb and blind representatives to act to resolve a situation which is close to a public crises.
However Canada has been dealing with the secondary effects of the US student loan mess for some time. For several years Canadian teaching postings had a disproportionate number of US applicants. To the extent that the last time I checked (when I was still in the North), the Canadians were placing citizenship preferences on such positions. And quite a few people along that border were considering immigration to Canada as a solution to the pressures of the loan cabal. Perhaps that's why Montana actually floated a proposal to deny drivers licenses to those who were behind on student loans. Perhaps they figured out an incipient exodus was in the making... but I wonder how many US people might now consider Canada as a option because of their new laws.
And state and CC's have had problems with reductions in grants, and attendant problems in becoming reliant on loan money for funding. To the extent that many of the activities cited as problematic by the NYS SAG are still very much in evidence.
Timecruncher; Good your daughter is keeping a realistic view of the situation. But somehow we lose much of the moral credibility of academia by having had to come to these realizations. |