I'm not so sure one can blame student loans alone. I'm gonna put a disclaimer up front that I haven't really read any studies into the cause of college tuition inflation, but the "gubbiment loans make people who don't need/deserve a college education get one" sounds like a libertarian think-tank's conclusion, not a real answer.

Basically persistent price inflation has to be a market failure. All you do by giving a subsidy to college students looking to get an education is put upward pressure on the demand curve. If supply is fixed, sure, that will only lead to price inflation, but supply isn't fixed is it?

I mean are Universities facing increases in their costs? What costs do they have that would be increasing? Are professor salaries 7 figures now? Seems like that would encourage more people to train to be college professors, and drive that salary cost back down a bit.

What other persistent costs do universities have? Grounds upkeep? Keeping their facilities up to date? The latter can be quite costly, but which facilities would be both so necessary and so costly to update that it's forcing a massive spike in tuition across the board?

>> ^direpickle:

Tuition inflation is a huge problem, though, and it's definitely due to the fact that with loans now "anyone" can afford to go to college, and even with jacking up the prices there are record enrollment rates. This does need to be addressed. It's not because of Obama, though.

>> ^Mauru:

this logic makes my head hurt. There are no conservative colleges?


There's one...but it's not conservative it's reactionary. Yeah there's very few actual "Conservative" colleges...because the word has no meaning in the US.

>> ^iaui:

Wow. I'm just ... speechless. You guys are truly fucked.


We're gonna bring ALL YA'LL Down with Us!!!

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>> ^longde:

WOW. May I ask what two classes these are?
Sorry to hear that. Things must be different now. I couldn't imagine a senior level class being unavailable when i was in school.


It was more than Two Classes...I just realized I had to change from a degree to a Surgical Technician certificate instead. Maybe those classes are available now. I just know while I was down there I was trying to get the same classes in 3 different Community Colleges and each time I was totally blocked.

I've been going to College for the past 9 years...I used to be able to go to the class the first day and easily get in because there were only 10-20 people in any class on campus. Now it's just not that way, cuts cuts and more cuts screwed everything up.

EDIT: Even up in WA I have to go to two colleges cause one didn't have my Bio class that I need for Surgical Tech...because they only have ONE class open at each college per quarter. Just ridiculous when it fills up before I get a chance to sign up when the servers open.

>> ^longde:

Not all colleges in California are as expensive and exclusive as Florida. You have many community colleges or 2nd/3rd tier regional universities. So, while it is not free, college is accessible for all.
Choose a prudent field of study, and your investment will go far.>> ^Yogi:
>> ^Peroxide:
Not everyone should go to college.
But NO ONE should not be able to go because it's too expensive.

http://videosift.com/video/Noam-Chomsky-Education-For-Whom-and-For-What


Here Chomsky talks about how going to a City college in Mexico is free. In California, one of the richest places in the world it totally isn't.



No I'm sorry this just isn't true. I am well versed on this because I just had to move from Southern California to Washington just to get the classes I need to finish my degree. I was stuck for two years not able to get classes cause they cut them in half. There's not enough classes because all they're looking at now is the bottom line.

So college isn't accessible to ALL, and in the wealthiest nation on earth it should be FREE...it isn't, not even close.

EDITED for spelling cause I haven't finished college

>> ^entr0py:

Sounds like godless liberal elitism to me. Slow down there Lenin H. Rockefeller
http://factcheck.org/2012/02/college-kills-faith/
That's disappointing. College should kill faith. Well, maybe not kill it, but certainly wound it. If you go to higher education for a few years and you aren't exposed to ideas that make you at least question your faith, you and/or your college have failed in your education.

Not all colleges in California are as expensive and exclusive as Florida. You have many community colleges or 2nd/3rd tier regional universities. So, while it is not free, college is accessible for all.

Choose a prudent field of study, and your investment will go far.>> ^Yogi:

>> ^Peroxide:
Not everyone should go to college.
But NO ONE should not be able to go because it's too expensive.

http://videosift.com/video/Noam-Chomsky-Education-For-Whom-and-For-What

Here Chomsky talks about how going to a City college in Mexico is free. In California, one of the richest places in the world it totally isn't.

>> ^Peroxide:

Not everyone should go to college.
But NO ONE should not be able to go because it's too expensive.


http://videosift.com/video/Noam-Chomsky-Education-For-Whom-and-For-What

Here Chomsky talks about how going to a City college in Mexico is free. In California, one of the richest places in the world it totally isn't.

>> ^dag:

No. Didn't like inception or the Batman flicks. Here's how I would describe Nolan movies: darkness and contrived plots masking a lack of depth and character development. Although Inception tried to be a thought provoking film - in the end there was not a lot there.



Nope it's a fine film. There's not many big budget films that are EVER that good. There's just some people that are snobs about films and will find problems with every fucking thing. I choose to see the good in something as usual and enjoy it for what it is.

You probably couldn't watch Buffy without vomiting which makes you a bastard.

You guys are such snobs! This video is awesome.

No worries, I figured you were joking. Gotta give the kazoo it's due though

In reply to this comment by hpqp:
I was actually kinda joking, but then, who am I to snob the humble kazoo?

In reply to this comment by Zifnab:
Bravo it is now, it's hard to keep all the channels in mind when there are 105 of them...>> ^hpqp:

Why this no be in braavo channel? It's a motherlovin' kazoo, for frack's sake!

I was actually kinda joking, but then, who am I to snob the humble kazoo?

In reply to this comment by Zifnab:
Bravo it is now, it's hard to keep all the channels in mind when there are 105 of them...>> ^hpqp:

Why this no be in braavo channel? It's a motherlovin' kazoo, for frack's sake!