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re: Should state colleges cap their tuition and fees?
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:19 pm to Forkbeard3777
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:19 pm to Forkbeard3777
The cost of attendance has gone through the roof at an alarming rate. It is virtually impossible for a kid to work his way through school.
My freshman tuition at Auburn in 1983 was $1,050 for the year. I will be paying $10,424 each for my two kids to attend Auburn this year. Add housing, books, fees, and food to that $21,000 bill and it will probably double.
In fact, tuition has doubled since 2004!
My freshman tuition at Auburn in 1983 was $1,050 for the year. I will be paying $10,424 each for my two kids to attend Auburn this year. Add housing, books, fees, and food to that $21,000 bill and it will probably double.
In fact, tuition has doubled since 2004!
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Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:19 pm to H.M. Murdock
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No, no it is not.
If that is your stance then your state will be full of poor, illiterate people.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:20 pm to Forkbeard3777
Sounds like something Obama would do. No thanks.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:22 pm to H.M. Murdock
Considering that they're nonprofits, you're incorrect.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:22 pm to Forkbeard3777
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Thats exactly why I'm asking if they should be capped. State colleges are supposed to be te affordable option.
So you'd like me to pay for your education? I guess you'd also like me to pay more for my dinner so you can make $15 minimum wage while you wash the dishes!
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:22 pm to tom1987
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I will be paying $10,424 each for my two kids to attend Auburn this year.
FWIW 10k is cheap. 40k in total tuition for career training at a university level is quite the investment. My family owns trade schools with over 2500 total students and again thats a bargain in comparison
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:23 pm to SoDakHawk
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If that is your stance then your state will be full of poor, illiterate people.
The reason I asked his age earlier was because I don't usually hear people born after 1980 exhibit the "too bad, so sad" attitude when it comes to the cost of higher education in today's world.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:24 pm to Forkbeard3777
The cost of tuition has always had a target of your first years salary. Your kid doesn't need to stay in a $1000/month condo, have a new car, etc. I lived next to campus, so I walked to school. I lived in a 70s apartment complex, which was $300/month. I worked at school, so they were mindful of my class time. He's an adult now. Pay his tuition, and let him come up with the rest. He'll thank you later when he can provide for himself.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:24 pm to iAmBatman
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Considering that they're nonprofits, you're incorrect.
so non profits are not businesses?
non profit is just how they allocate revenue and report on taxes, doent mean they dont try to essentially have profit and run as a business
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:25 pm to WilsonPickett
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So you'd like me to pay for your education? I guess you'd also like me to pay more for my dinner so you can make $15 minimum wage while you wash the dishes!
You already do with taxes that support local public elementary and high schools. A public university is exactly that, public.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:26 pm to AUCE05
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Your kid doesn't need to stay in a $1000/month condo
The cost of a dorm at Carolina is something like $750 a month when you divide it out. I wish it was only $300 a month.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:27 pm to AUCE05
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The cost of tuition has always had a target of your first years salary. Your kid doesn't need to stay in a $1000/month condo, have a new car, etc. I lived next to campus, so I walked to school. I lived in a 70s apartment complex, which was $300/month. I worked at school, so they were mindful of my class time. He's an adult now. Pay his tuition, and let him come up with the rest. He'll thank you later when he can provide for himself.
reminds me of the argument against 60k trucks in comparison to the past. I dont remember trucks prior to the late 90's having 350+ HP, crew cabs, navigation, electric but scratchers, etc...
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:32 pm to GetCocky11
You get my point. My place was a shitty one bedroom apartment. My dad told me I was there to work, not play. If I failed out, I had to pay for it. I had an old Ford Ranger that I only used to drive home in once a month. This was all within the last 10 years. People who complain about the price of school are doing it wrong.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:32 pm to SoDakHawk
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reasonably affordable access to higher education?
I disagree with this. This is why so many people can't find a job straight out of college, because a college education doesn't stand out anymore when you apply somewhere because everyone feels that they deserve to go to college when that isn't the case.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:34 pm to NYCAuburn
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so non profits are not businesses?
non profit is just how they allocate revenue and report on taxes, doent mean they dont try to essentially have profit and run as a business
Those two guys are buffoons. It all makes sense as to why they are complaining.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:35 pm to McCaigBro69
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deserve to go to college when that isn't the case.
This isn't about deserving to go to college. This is simply about the price of college.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:35 pm to AUCE05
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People who complain about the price of school are doing it wrong.
Exactly, I by no means had an awesome living experience, I lived in about a 100 year old house in Waco with two of my best friends and I wouldn't have done it any other way. I dated a girl whose parents paid for her to live in a condo that was $1,400 a month. I pay half that right now and I have an actual career.
If you want to go to whatever school then work your arse off and get scholarships. I would have ended up at Texas Tech or Texas State had I not worked hard for my grades and test scores to receive a boat load of scholarships. It isn't easy and people shouldn't expect it to be.
College isn't something that's easy attain and it shouldn't be.
This post was edited on 8/19/15 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:35 pm to H.M. Murdock
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If you incur huge student loans and can not pay them....to bad, you made a bad investment. Personal Responsibility.
You didn't invest.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:36 pm to GetCocky11
The cost of a dorm at Carolina is something like $750 a month when you divide it out. I wish it was only $300 a month.
I am sure you can find housing in town that you can afford. It is not the job of the taxpayer to provide you housing. Then again, if you can not afford college, housing, etc...get a blue collar job and attend trade school. Perhaps the military is an option for you. Get paid to learn something.
I am sure you can find housing in town that you can afford. It is not the job of the taxpayer to provide you housing. Then again, if you can not afford college, housing, etc...get a blue collar job and attend trade school. Perhaps the military is an option for you. Get paid to learn something.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:37 pm to Forkbeard3777
How can they do that with the state ravaging the appropriation? What needs to be Capped is TOPS. Not capped but eliminated or restricted to scholars and the needy.
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