BNN provides English-language US and world news, analysis and opinion from all over the Internet. We strive for high standards, ethical behavior, and the presentation of multiple responsible points of view.
|
Get More Traffic For Your Blog! Blog Explosion brings hundreds of interested visitors to your blog - without costing you a cent. BNN News Archive Page |
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Where Are All Those Tuition Monies Going? No longer. The typical student today (and his/her family) now reaches graduation with massive debts (unless fortunate enough to have it made at very high level income and/or inheritance levels). Even my teaching institution, CUNY, abandoned free tuition in the 1970s so that too many of my students are obliged to stagger study years with earning ones -- or must drop out simply because they can't make ends meet. Where are all these monies going? Judging from what one observes our corporate models of higher education are gobbling tuition funds for secondary uses -- per Thomas Sowell: http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/sowell-tuition How much are Columbia administrators pulling down plus perks? And how is Columbia paying for all that real estate that it is currently purchasing in Manhattanville (or will be paying off future interest on loans taken for those purchases)? Needless to say tuition is covering a good bit of this stuff one way or another. I admit that we at Brooklyn College -- where junior faculty are struggling along with adjuncts to survive and tuitions leap upwards for our students each year -- are the beneficiaries (?) of a recent &79 million or so library upgrade -- thanks also to the largesse of the Dormitory Authority. I tell my students that as tax payers they had better enjoy it now, as they will be paying for it for the rest of their lives, if they stay in NY. So perhaps someone in the Columbia Business School might put a spread sheet to work to figure what percentage of parents' and students' contributions in tuition and loans are respectively allocated to: a) corporate salaries? b) building projects? When I was at Oxford our business operation at my college was run single handedly by the college bursar who also tutored me in Greek. That was it plus some cooks and "scouts" who cleaned things up. See the Columbia tuition rates below and start saving if you have children struggling to get educations now in NYC. We do better at Brooklyn, incidentally, in national awards for our students at far lower tuition rates -- 2 Rhodes, 3 Beineckes, and a Truman Fellowship recently and entry to all the professional schools, including Yale and Columbia Law, NYU Medical among my own students, etc. But even our tuition is now paying far more than half our operating expenses. This is no way to run higher education -- $39,200 for next year's undergrad tuition? Help! Ed Kent] http://www.ce.columbia.edu/as/tuition.cfm Fall 2006/Spring 2007 3 points $3,920 flat rate (for students registering for a total of 3 points in a given term) Fewer or more than 3 points in a given term $1,086 per point Noncredit foreign language courses $1,750 per course Noncredit creative writing courses $2,700 per course Chemistry F0001y $2,172 Summer 2006 Per point $1,030 Noncredit foreign language courses $1,350 per course German S1121D $5,400 Columbia Arabic Summer Program $2,700 per language course per session Russian Practicum $2,700 per language course per session -- "A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli) -- Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndingPoverty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/440neighborhood http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StudentConcerns http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/ http://www.bloggernews.net Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by Ed Kent at 9:58 AM |
Subscribe to BNN and get a daily bulletin of all our news postings. Interested in writing for BNN? Want information on our news service? Contact The Editor Writing for BNN BNN Editorial Policies Previous Posts
|
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home