<p>‘U-Va does not have regional “quotas” for in state students. That’s a myth’</p>
<p>no, but they do make class rank a factor (significant?, thats a debate, but I think so) in admissions, independent of GPA. That tends in a similar direction.</p>
<p>Thanks Hazel :o it’s been tough, but he was fantastic and I know it was time.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s fair to say humanities teachers can take on less work because they’re not researching and running labs and such. Many humanities teachers are guiding thesis(es), running research studies, and trying to read to keep up with current knowledge. On top of all of this, often their assignments are long papers that take hours to read. Their classes require lengthy presentations and seminars rather than throwing up equations on the board from a book. I actually think humanities classes put more stress on the professors than an engineering course would. At the same time, engineering professors often need to hold more office hours. So neither side of the academia world would benefit from piling more classes on teachers.</p>
<p>The original article certainly goes along with the normal apologists who never really assess why a university raises its tuition and fees at well above the rate of inflation year after year (it goes far beyond state budget cuts), while also offering instruction for maybe half the calendar year (end around May 1, take a month off in the winter, etc., etc.): where exactly is all this alleged teaching burden? </p>
<p>I don’t consider OOS UVA or other peers public and private a bargain at $1500-$2000 per week, and am glad our UVA student is our final collegian. Some day the system will indeed collapse.</p>
<p>One of UVA’s glaring competitive weaknesses is mediocre school housing stock and supply. As others have said, how could the place accommodate a large influx without a huge capital expense for dorms alone? You can’t just shovel thousands more into the surrounding community, either.</p>
<p>Fifty, have you seen the new Comm School? Or the new Ed building? Or the project they’ve undertaken of tearing down perfectly fine dorms and replacing them with over-the-top ones?<br>
UVa spends, a lot, and it’s probably because they’ve always had a great alumni donation pool. Now the economy sucks, hedge funds collapsed, those donations were never keeping up with inflation, and less people are donating lesser amounts. No wonder UVa is in a financial crisis. Sounds similar to a large percentage of other Americans who were hit by the economy’s collapse…</p>
<p>Test scores would go down because even though the 500+ students have the average of UVA SAT scores right now, not all of them would end up going to UVA anyway, hence lowering the yield. </p>
<p>The proposal just doesn’t make sense from many angles. I can’t see professors teaching a THIRD class when UVA is supposed to be a world-class research university. In other words, the idea is for professors to dedicate substantial time for research. More teaching would only hinder that. And for god’s sake, who is going to sign up for Saturday classes, really? Lastly, they did not address what financial aid would be like for underprivileged students. This whole move is designed to give wealthy students a better shot at UVA. The only thing that’d make sense is to turn UVA into a private institution at the current enrollment rate.</p>
<p>Is UVA hurting financialy right now? I know the school has a great endowment and that they recieve many donations. However, with the financial crisis aren’t many schools hurting right now?</p>
<p>Yes, that’s why there was a huge protest from students when the UC system decided to increase tuition rates recently.</p>
<p>As an incoming first year, this is pretty upsetting. My parents definitely had an amount of money they were willing to spend per year for my college, and UVA is fairly close to it already. Large tuition hikes would not thrill my parents, especially when I had other, comparably priced options (that won’t be seeing equivalent hikes) but went with UVA.</p>
<p>I’m not sure you can say that other colleges wouldn’t have comparable hikes… Nothing can be guaranteed in this economy… And none of this is set in stone yet – it’s just a proposal.</p>