unfortunately, the state of california does not HAVE to provide these students an education... it is something they pay for... and when that happens, you have supply and demand...
Now that california can't pay for the system, they're passing it along to the students (regardless of how wasteful the system might be). It sucks, because it used to be that USA was about opportunity. But with this, the only opportunity is for the rich (or those who are most likely to pay off debts, which amounts to the same thing).
The budget cuts here at my UC has made a *huge* impact on our day to day. Things like trash pickup, recycling pickup and just regular maintenance requests are all but rare. There's ugly everywhere now, and its starting to affect the lab's general safety
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Oh, believe me - I realize that it's hitting the staff members pretty hard as well.
My question is - why is it hitting the state colleges so bad? I mean, is it due to all the debt that CA has? Are undergrads and state college staff members basically being asked to bend over, drop trousers and do their part to help bail out all the banks and institutions that helped get us to where we are?
I know state colleges (both CSU and UC?) are tied to state finances but I'm not too certain how it all works..and it is just flooring me that the boards and panels that make the big decisions feel they can just keep asking for more and more from people who just _don't have_ that kind of money. I wonder what sort of yearly pay that board of regents is making? Are they in the same boat as campus staff and students or are they basically making the cuts and hikes go to all of us so they can keep living in comfort?
What a horrible situation to see higher education suffer so much and become a goal that only those with big pockets can spring for.
Its hitting state colleges the hardest because a huge percentage of their annual funding comes from the state. That amount from the state has been cut *huge* because of the state's fiscal deterioration. As such, the schools are left deep in the red
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I understand that the colleges need to function. It just seems so bizarre that students are in large part being asked to pick up the slack where the state funding left off. Students just don't have a lot of money to do this sort of thing.
I really have trouble seeing tuition fees going back down at some point myself. Once people are eventually accustomed(for lack of better wording there) to paying that amount, it would seem silly to bring it back down even when funding is better from the state. It would be like voluntarily opting to receive much less money after they've already gone through the growing pains to get to that point of having higher tuition fees.
Maybe I'm wrong? Maybe one day penguins will start waddling around here in Socal and tuition fees will go down rather then up - but I guess I'm just jaded and have trouble seeing it happen when tuition fees have gone up so much in a short period.
Well. I think it goes back to who is thinking about this. Someone out there came up with this because everyone they know had enough money to pay the college for the kids, and the idea of a college student working probably doesn't exist in their mind.
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Now that california can't pay for the system, they're passing it along to the students (regardless of how wasteful the system might be). It sucks, because it used to be that USA was about opportunity. But with this, the only opportunity is for the rich (or those who are most likely to pay off debts, which amounts to the same thing).
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My question is - why is it hitting the state colleges so bad? I mean, is it due to all the debt that CA has? Are undergrads and state college staff members basically being asked to bend over, drop trousers and do their part to help bail out all the banks and institutions that helped get us to where we are?
I know state colleges (both CSU and UC?) are tied to state finances but I'm not too certain how it all works..and it is just flooring me that the boards and panels that make the big decisions feel they can just keep asking for more and more from people who just _don't have_ that kind of money. I wonder what sort of yearly pay that board of regents is making? Are they in the same boat as campus staff and students or are they basically making the cuts and hikes go to all of us so they can keep living in comfort?
What a horrible situation to see higher education suffer so much and become a goal that only those with big pockets can spring for.
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I really have trouble seeing tuition fees going back down at some point myself. Once people are eventually accustomed(for lack of better wording there) to paying that amount, it would seem silly to bring it back down even when funding is better from the state. It would be like voluntarily opting to receive much less money after they've already gone through the growing pains to get to that point of having higher tuition fees.
Maybe I'm wrong? Maybe one day penguins will start waddling around here in Socal and tuition fees will go down rather then up - but I guess I'm just jaded and have trouble seeing it happen when tuition fees have gone up so much in a short period.
I hope everything smooths out at your lab. :/
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Truly a separation of the commoner and the elite.
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