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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Harry Hope" |
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16 Oct 2005 07:52:12 AM |
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The destruction of the foundation of the American middle class |
From The New York Times, 10/16/05:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/education/16college.html?ex=1287115200&en=18a6f93c601331b0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
At Public Universities, Warnings of Privatization
By SAM DILLON
Taxpayer support for public universities, measured per student, has
plunged more precipitously since 2001 than at any time in two decades,
and several university presidents are calling the decline a de facto
privatization of the institutions that played a crucial role in the
creation of the American middle class.
Graham Spanier, president of Pennsylvania State University, said this
year that skyrocketing tuition was a result of what he called "public
higher education's slow slide toward privatization."
Other educators have made similar assertions, some avoiding the term
"privatization" but nonetheless describing a crisis that they say is
transforming public universities.
At an academic forum last month, John D. Wiley, chancellor of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that during the years after
World War II, America built the world's greatest system of public
higher education.
"We're now in the process of dismantling all that," Dr. Wiley said.
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Very sad.
Harry
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| Title: Re: The destruction of the foundation of the American middle class |
16 Oct 2005 08:15:43 AM |
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Harry Hope wrote:
From The New York Times, 10/16/05:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/education/16college.html?ex=1287115200&en=18a6f93c601331b0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
At Public Universities, Warnings of Privatization
By SAM DILLON
Taxpayer support for public universities, measured per student, has
plunged more precipitously since 2001 than at any time in two decades,
and several university presidents are calling the decline a de facto
privatization of the institutions that played a crucial role in the
creation of the American middle class.
Graham Spanier, president of Pennsylvania State University, said this
year that skyrocketing tuition was a result of what he called "public
higher education's slow slide toward privatization."
Penn State should know, it's the most overpriced public
school in the whole US.
It's costs more to park your car at the Penn State Football Stadium
for a season today, than my entire four year tuition did twenty
years ago.
Other educators have made similar assertions, some avoiding the term
"privatization" but nonetheless describing a crisis that they say is
transforming public universities.
At an academic forum last month, John D. Wiley, chancellor of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that during the years after
World War II, America built the world's greatest system of public
higher education.
But we have recurring difference with W-M though.
Since the US built an entire generation of engineers
who only knew one thing:
how nuclear submarines work.
But in today's world, nuclear submarines are
Bill Clinton / Al Gore territory, and hence have zero job growth,
except for Wal-Mart and China.
"We're now in the process of dismantling all that," Dr. Wiley said.
No is dismantling The Wisconsin education system,
since the only thing they teach is how The Mall Of America works.
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Very sad.
Harry
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| User: "Rick Hohensee" |
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| Title: Re: The destruction of the foundation of the American middle class |
16 Oct 2005 04:52:52 PM |
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In article <v7j4l1hgidu4k5breuuim82j2gorfnueua@4ax.com>,
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The New York Times, 10/16/05:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/education/16college.html?ex=1287115200&en=18a6f93c601331b0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
At Public Universities, Warnings of Privatization
By SAM DILLON
Taxpayer support for public universities, measured per student, has
plunged more precipitously since 2001 than at any time in two decades,
and several university presidents are calling the decline a de facto
privatization of the institutions that played a crucial role in the
creation of the American middle class.
Graham Spanier, president of Pennsylvania State University, said this
year that skyrocketing tuition was a result of what he called "public
higher education's slow slide toward privatization."
Other educators have made similar assertions, some avoiding the term
"privatization" but nonetheless describing a crisis that they say is
transforming public universities.
At an academic forum last month, John D. Wiley, chancellor of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that during the years after
World War II, America built the world's greatest system of public
higher education.
"We're now in the process of dismantling all that," Dr. Wiley said.
______________________________________________________
Very sad.
Harry
Not entirely. Cow colleges run on matching funds. Your tuition is a fee to
recieve a subsidy. This is a means test for welfare, and fabulously
unfair. Preserving the middle class at the expense of the underclass is
not a good thing. Also, education needs structural changes reflecting the
power of the Internet and America's scandalous adult illiteracy rate. And
a lot of other things.
--
Rick (Richard Allen) Hohensee Party of one
candidate, President of the United States of America
humbubba@smart.net Maryland, USA
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Semi-legalize drugs Prosecute Bush Tighten the borders
Isolate Israel Tax churches halve military aquisitions
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