Soon, Only the Wealthy Will Be Able to Afford College
January 12, 2012 at 4:22 PM 5 comments
This was one of the headlines on the front page of my local newspaper this morning:
CU-Boulder proposes 15.7% tuition hike for in-state students
Plan would raise full-time students’ tuition to $8,875 next year
In-state tuition for full-time students at the University of Colorado next year could soar 15.7 percent under a plan proposed Wednesday.
Under the proposal, tuition for full-time students in the College of Arts and Sciences — which enrolls the most students on the Boulder campus — would increase from $7,672 this year to $8,875 next year.
The increase, if approved, would amount to an extra $1,203 a year.
CU has raised tuition between 8.8 percent and 9.3 percent each of the last four years.
What a huge increase.
Per that last sentence, let’s presume that on average CU has raised tuition by 9 percent each of the last four years. That means if the 15.7 percent increase is approved, over the last five years tuition will have increased at CU by 51.7 percent, over just five years.
Wow. Soon a college education will either be available only to the wealthy or kids will be saddled with even more debt when they enter the working world.
Too bad we can’t put some of the billions we’re spending on war toward funding our universities.
Screwed up priorities.
Entry filed under: Education. Tags: cu boulder, tuition hike.
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Benj | January 13, 2012 at 2:06 AM
I love how they say they are “proposing” a rate hike. “Inflicting” would be more appropriate, as a “proposal” is by definition subject to being declined by the parties involved in the proposal. The students surely are not given a chance to reject this outrageous and counterproductive, even outright harmful, proposal.
And yes, it is sickening to think that we can spend millions of dollars a day on unnecessary wars, but we do not have the foresight (or CONCERN?) to support an educational system that is accessible to all, and won’t leave a student saddled in overwhelming and unnecessary debt.
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Say It Ain't So Already | January 13, 2012 at 8:51 AM
Exactly. Bravo.
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Don Griffin | January 13, 2012 at 4:48 PM
Shouldn’t the professor’s pay be cut so students can get a break. If they did not make so much, the student’s would not need to pay so much.
In fact all of the administration should take a pay cut.
Education should be free to everyone who wants it. Why should anyone make money off of it.
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Timothy Golden | January 15, 2012 at 11:54 AM
Even with that tuition increase, it still is about $1,000 less than it costs for NJ residents to go to Rutgers.
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Say It Ain't So Already | January 15, 2012 at 11:58 AM
Wow.