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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not unsympathetic to the professors, who have no control over what universities charge people.

But.

For the people defending them, you must admit that tuition and fees have gotten out of hand, yes? It's unrealistic to expect that parents and students will demand nothing back for the enormous amount of money they hand over.

It's only going to get worse.

Professors who don't like how things are going should get out now while they can still find another job in a robust economy.

You don't really think things are going to get any better when they're asking, 80k, 90k, 100k a year?[/quote]

So vote with your dollars. Don't send your kid to a high-profile research university. Send them to a SLAC or a low-cost state school. Actually, this will have no impact - we get enough wealthy foreign student who are happy to pay full freight for the privilege of studying at a U.S. research institution, so things will not change (except perhaps the level of helicopter parenting and entitlement - the foreign students are much better in this respect). And go ahead and complain to the university about my teaching efforts - it will give me and my Dean something to laugh over after he congratulates me for my latest big research grant. Research universities are not about teaching - they are about the creation of new knowledge through research. [/quote]

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