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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ Harvard's endowment is $37 billion.  I guess they can be pretty generous.  Of course only .4% of college students attend an Ivy so I don't know why you keep posting this as representative of anything.[/quote]

Exactly.  There is a wide variety of choice for the 0.4% and for the ultra rich.  For the rest, it is big box education.  But diversity of thinking and backgrounds has always been a strength of the US.  This will hurt our country in the long run.[/quote]
Got news for you, there is plenty of 'diverse thinking' at a large state university.[/quote]

I agree with you, and must say I find the term "big box education" incredibly offensive.

State universities have genius teachers, are doing amazing research, and are great values.  To compare them to Sam's club is ignorant.

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I teach at a big box school, love my students, love my school, think we are a terrific value. I involve many undergrads in research, and get many letters from graduating students thanking me for mentoring them.   However, that does not mean that it is the best thing for the United States to have the vast majority of our students educated this way (maybe the majority, but not the vast majority).  I went to a LAC as an undergrad.  I know it is a very different experience.  But, then again, LACs would not be the right school for the kids that thrive with me.

It really is true that allowing many paths yields diverse, interesting outcomes. As a prof at a big box school, I would hate to see us go the way of Europe, and have a standardized path to higher education.[/quote]

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