Colleges and universities started jacking up their tuition around 1980, when they realized they could charge far more without losing enrollment. So, being the businesses they are, they kept jacking it up. And the beauty of it is that nobody’s blaming them, it’s all boomers’ fault for encouraging education. Win-win!
In the case of at least one school, the state was also cutting back funding.
I would love for this chart to have two extra lines: the cost of tuition and an inflation adjusted cost of tuition. Without those numbers this chart could simply be “the school spent more while getting constant state funding and made the difference up with tuition”. That wasn’t actually the case here, but the chart doesn’t make it obvious.
Aid has decreased while tuition has increased because the oligarchy presses government to cut everything that doesn’t benefit them personally. Society values education and knowledge. Oligarchs value well educated workers they can make money off but didn’t have to pay to educate. So they import foreign workers, saying Americans are underqualified.
Exactly - people with fewer options make less trouble. The only tricky part is not knowing where the end of their rope is, like with that Mangione guy.
All the people down voting this comments are the ones who u ironically NEEDED to go to college to learn critical thinking, interpersonal communication, how to debate, and how to prove/disprove rationally.
The world is easier to process when people think in simple memes and see every issue as binary Extreme Good vs Extreme Evil. They can take in minimal info, make a moral judgement at a glance that agrees with the rest of their echo chamber, feel the angelic glow and scroll on to the next item in the feed. It’s super efficient once you realize the so-called “gray areas” are just disingenuous shilling for the Wrong Side.
I was a kid then and people my parent’s aged were converting from hippies to yuppies, making greed good, and elected Regan.
It’s not all their fault, but their generation was the biggest during the era when unions were weakened or eliminated, taxes were cut, and hedge funds and holding companies were invented.
Colleges and universities started jacking up their tuition around 1980, when they realized they could charge far more without losing enrollment. So, being the businesses they are, they kept jacking it up. And the beauty of it is that nobody’s blaming them, it’s all boomers’ fault for encouraging education. Win-win!
In the case of at least one school, the state was also cutting back funding.
I would love for this chart to have two extra lines: the cost of tuition and an inflation adjusted cost of tuition. Without those numbers this chart could simply be “the school spent more while getting constant state funding and made the difference up with tuition”. That wasn’t actually the case here, but the chart doesn’t make it obvious.
Aid has decreased while tuition has increased because the oligarchy presses government to cut everything that doesn’t benefit them personally. Society values education and knowledge. Oligarchs value well educated workers they can make money off but didn’t have to pay to educate. So they import foreign workers, saying Americans are underqualified.
Oligarchs also value an indebted workforce.
Exactly - people with fewer options make less trouble. The only tricky part is not knowing where the end of their rope is, like with that Mangione guy.
As if it wasn’t boomers running the colleges.
Well I don’t run a college. You might as well say, “As if black people don’t commit armed robbery.”
All the people down voting this comments are the ones who u ironically NEEDED to go to college to learn critical thinking, interpersonal communication, how to debate, and how to prove/disprove rationally.
I get the feeling a lot of lemmy users are high school sophomores who would upvote anyone who calls mom a bitch for taking them to the dentist.
You’re 100℅ right and it’s sad to see how bad some people’s logic is.
College admins are a subset of boomers. This isn’t about boomers. This is about colleges.
The world is easier to process when people think in simple memes and see every issue as binary Extreme Good vs Extreme Evil. They can take in minimal info, make a moral judgement at a glance that agrees with the rest of their echo chamber, feel the angelic glow and scroll on to the next item in the feed. It’s super efficient once you realize the so-called “gray areas” are just disingenuous shilling for the Wrong Side.
In the 1980s, boomers were in their 30s/early 40s, so no they were not likely to be senior leadership in colleges at the time.
I was a kid then and people my parent’s aged were converting from hippies to yuppies, making greed good, and elected Regan.
It’s not all their fault, but their generation was the biggest during the era when unions were weakened or eliminated, taxes were cut, and hedge funds and holding companies were invented.
Read his comment again, you disputed a false premise!
college tuition is the only thing that rose faster than CEO pay for the last 40 yrs