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November 05, 2013
* On Ted Cruz.
* I might need to go back to college.
* I am unsurprised by this.
* Mostly for my Dad.
* If someone could make this for me...
* Squirrel Cop might be my most favorite This American Life story ever. (Also: this.)
The college for which the hubby works recently announced that it will be decreasing tuition by $10K beginning next school year. Combine this with the other things it's doing/has done--purchased a nursing school, has a 5 year BA + MBA program, has some degrees that can be completed in just 3 years, has a random MFA program in writing--and I fear it's going to get a rep for being a diploma mill. That is, if it doesn't have that reputation already.
Posted by: PL | November 05, 2013 at 11:57 AM
OK. Let's get some perspective. I don't know any parent thats paying less than 1K/mo/kid for 9 hr per day daycare. Private primary school... the catholic schools are 5-6K, but unaffiliated private schools run 9-20K. In Pittsburgh.
But the real issue is that in the 60s/70s, public universities were funded by the state at a much higher rate, in general. Some states have really slashed their state university support. And wages, especially at the low end of the work experience range, have stagnated. It's tax policy and income inequality, not nuclear physics. Voting Americans, as a whole, chose this.
Posted by: Trish | November 05, 2013 at 02:19 PM
Schuman apparently teaches at my University. I must meet her.
Posted by: Nicholas | November 05, 2013 at 04:35 PM
I suppose that Neil Gaiman teaching at Bard means I can no longer brag that he lives 90 miles from me :-( But he will be closer to his wife, which is good.
Posted by: kmkat | November 07, 2013 at 01:53 PM
Yeah, I saw the Bard College + Neil Gaiman thing and was like "Ooh, I wonder if they have an online MFA I can enroll in...."
Posted by: Jen Donohue | November 08, 2013 at 08:17 PM