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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was a college student, I worked hard for my education. I lived in a shoebox with roommates. I worked a series of unstable jobs. I ate mostly eggs for protein. I wrote checks for my tuition bill and barely kept it together until graduation. I mostly felt like a guest in classrooms. I totally got it that profs were there to write and publish and lectures were not their first priority.

But I also wasn’t taking on lifelong debt. I knew it was chump change for the university, my $4k a semester.

Let’s not play dumb. Massive  tuition increases will inevitably change the culture and dynamics. You can’t charge 10x the money but expect the students to act the same. [/quote]

The professors' salary has not changed that much. The institution charges a lot more money, and in large part that is due to two things: 1) decreased subsidy of state schools from taxes, and 2) students/families insisting on things like renovated dorms and lazy rivers.

But that money is not being demanded by those who teach. Their average salaries have gone down -- no point in taking it out on them.

"Everyone is aware that the cost of going to college has skyrocketed since [fill in any date going back to the middle of the last century]. Why has this happened? This post is about one possible explanation, that turns out not to have any validity at all: increases in faculty salaries. In fact, over the past 40+ years, average salaries for college and university faculty have dropped dramatically. "

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2015/03/money-go-decline-faculty-salaries-american-colleges-universities-past-40-years[/quote]

But why should that mean that the dynamic isn’t dramatically different for the students?[/quote]

Your beef is with the institution, not those who teach. They are providing the same service at about the same compensation, if not less. Don't treat them differently -- bark at the administration.[/quote]

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