That's Awful! | Eastern North Carolina Now

    According to a Washington Post Article in my local newspaper:

    •  Since 1985 the consumer price index has gone up 121%. That's awful!
    •  Since 1985 Medical Costs have gone up 286%. That's 165 Percentage Points Higher than the Consumer Price Index. That's worst than awful!
    •  Since 1985, according to a new study from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) a nonprofit and nonpartisan research group, the price of Higher Education has gone up 538%. (I will leave out another "awful!" comment about 538% being awful because I don't want to be repetitious.)

    Maybe we ought to stop calling it Higher Education. The use of the word "Higher" sort of dictates that it has to cost more every year, otherwise it would not truly be Higher Education.

    If they changed the name to Lower Education, that might help for a while but Lower Education does not have a good ring to it and I doubt that those smart people who run our institutes if Higher Education would be tricked into lowering their tuitions.

    As per usual, I really do have an idea to fix this Escalating Higher Education Cost Trend from getting Higher. What the Federal Government needs to do is subsidize the cost of Higher Education to make Higher Education more affordable for the folks back home.

    What's that you say? Did I hear you say that our Federal Government has been subsidizing Higher Education for a long time? Where have I been? I guess I ought to pay closer attention.

    How's my idea working out?

    Would I kid u?
    Smartfella
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( July 30th, 2016 @ 9:57 pm )
 
I love that Ghost Busters line. I need to be more cognizant of ten-year professors.

And even more cognizant of of the results. Soon, I want to go to ECU and give someone there a chance to Wow me, as in impress me.

So far, less just say, I have been mostly under-impressed.
( July 30th, 2016 @ 6:38 pm )
 
The real problem may be that word ten-year. I think that the professors and administrators think they must keep raising tuition to keep ten-year employees employed. If we changed to a one-year format where each professor and administrator had to re-qualify for their job every year we could make some progress. Well, on second thought maybe we ought to work on that word progress as well.

To paraphrase Ghost Busters, I have worked in the private sector, they expect results.
( July 30th, 2016 @ 5:41 pm )
 
Thanks Alex. I needed a bit my foolishness in my life.

I do get it, and your foolishness is spot on. It is time for the Federal government to get out of every aspect of education.

There is one thing for sure, that I will attest to since I see it in a very close perspective: Kids certainly aren't getting any smarter, so the joke of all this Federal "foolishness" is on us.



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