Equity in College Admissions

Happytimes2001
Tue, 14 Jul 2020 02:14:36 +0000

@mwolf Not everyone wants the things you mention, at all! I think the bloat you mention in admin is the major part of the increase, coupled with extreme expenditures on things that are unrelated to education, like a 100million+ 24 hour gym or specialized items which very few use. And which, btw, were non-existent at the best colleges just a few decades ago (Ivy in fact).

Actually colleges have always had gyms, career advising and student support. But they did not have a lot of useless titles which they do now. And more people actually taught. Now colleges are filled with “thought leaders” and people who mainly do research. Not all but that is costly. There have been many articles written about the layer of people working at colleges who don’t educate. Anyone. Ever. This is expensive.

Public colleges are a public good and are worthy of funding. Yet, do you think it’s reasonable for taxpayers to pay for many items which are not tied to education? Nope. So therefore the price of state colleges rise quickly (putting kids in debt). This means that someone who wants a great education without frills has no options. They either go with the excess and excess price or they go to a community college. Not a good set of choices, IMO.