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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/opinion/paul-weiss-columbia-dei.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c&pvid=2B8B82FC-13A6-4415-9C13-ACED357EEEE3

NY Times today. And no, I don’t have a gift link

and this very insightful comment made by a reader who is a professor —

‘I am a university professor, I voted Harris, and I wish Trump would order my place to lower tuition across the board 25% or lose access to the federal loan system. The response would be to cut services, jobs, offices, etc that had nothing to do with research or student success/learning - in other words, precisely what my institution needs to do to survive. Such an order is unimaginable under a Democrat President. I am quite familiar with Columbia: cutting tuition 25% could be done immediately, and easily, and the entire issue goes away. Public opinion is against Columbia not because it peddles pro-Hamas nonsense, it’s because it became the symbol of popular, wide spread disdain for universities that harvest the wealth of families who committed the grave sin of raising children smart enough to go to college. Universities have lost their way, completely bloated with non-essential jobs that boost tuition. Both the Right and Left are aware of it, but no one does anything about it. No sector needs a “DOGE solution” more than higher education.’ [/quote]

This I agree with. [/quote]
So you think the government should be able dictate the cost of tuition?[/quote]

Repeat after me: price. controls. don't. work.

The solution is probably more along the lines of the European commenter upthread. Stop rewarding schools for spending money on fancy facilities and bureaucracy. Start rewarding schools that keep costs low. You want Ivy but with less cost? Apparently you pick Columbia.[/quote]

Um, well, one way to stop rewarding schools that spend money on nonsense is to cut their funding and impose price controls.[/quote]

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