09-18-2019, 04:56 AM
Ammo wrote:
Maybe it’s feature creep - not just in colleges, but just about in every aspect of American life. People’s expectations keep rising and it keeps costing more and more to meet them.
Not maybe. True. Just go to any top 100 college in the US for a visit.
I watched tuition continue to rise without ANY salary increases for faculty or staff, or even decent maintenance on major buildings, for more than a decade as faculty and Senator.
Where did the $$ go to? Secondary items like local health facilities and other optional student activities. Middle administration. Dorms that were too expensive to build and could not have their costs recovered due to cap on how much could be charged.
Modern colleges are Spas and camps. They stopped being a place where faculty and students met to learn, and then the students went home (and the faculty did research etc).