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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You may argue about the admission advantage. But the tuition discount, which is usually part of the faculty contract or employment letter, is a different story. If a school ends the tuition discount, it is a breach of contract that could trigger many lawsuits. 
    
[quote=Anonymous]Children of faculty are lucky because they get an advantage getting in and also a big tuition discount [/quote][/quote]

For tenured faculty. For everyone else, it's a change in benefits and they are free to reject it and quit [/quote]

Which many people would do. As a non-faculty university employee with a tuition benefit, I can say with certainty that I would look for other jobs immediately if it went away. The tuition benefit is a huge part of the comp/benefits package, helping to make up for salaries that are generally on the low end of the market.

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Needless to say it's a useless benefit if the kids can't be admitted, or there's even a hint that they're somehow shuffled down the stack.

I was just my DC's graduation (at a school no one is fighting about) and there were about three faculty/staff student's who graduated.  Their parents came up as part of the ceremony, and it was genuinely touching.  If someone is a cafeteria worker, in a high cost of living area (spanning a pandemic), and their kid gets a degree out of the deal, how can I complain?  There also was someone with family on the board of the school, and that wasn't as charming, but so be it, schools need to attract the right people in those roles too, and they should be as plugged into student life as possible.[/quote]

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