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College tuition has been soaring for years but the expense of college is far worse than what we\u2019ve been told. See, admin knows that tuition is tracked, and tracked carefully, and so has long since made a shell game out of college expenses.<\/p>\n

While college tuition goes up a few percent every year, book prices climb 10%, student \u201cactivity\u201d fees climb 20%, cost of housing another 30%, computer registration fees another 50%….it really is ridiculous watching fees appear from out of nowhere and leap up without coherent explanation.<\/p>\n

Allegedly to combat higher college tuition, New York state has a plan to offer free college tuition to its students. I appreciate New York means well, but having seen so many good intentions for higher education perverted, I have to be a little suspicious.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m hardly alone:<\/p>\n

While well intentioned, it\u2019s apparent that the New York State tuition-free public college plan will not accomplish its desired goals<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

While the author above raises some good concerns, I feel the need to highlight and add to some things.<\/p>\n

\u2026For instance, at <\/em>the State University of New York<\/em><\/a>, the tuition for this year is $6,470, but the total cost is $24,630 for New York resident students not living at home\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s quite the shell game, eh? How is it that housing costs are so high for a state supported institution? I mean, they get a free ride on the real estate taxes, the government owns the land already, it isn\u2019t trying to make a profit. But, hey, tuition\u2019s low, right?<\/p>\n

Let me explain what will happen here. Tuition will be free to the student. The university will be paid by the state a flat fee, say $6,000 per student as opposed to charging $6,470 for tuition. The university will then raise other charges to make up the $470 difference. But, for that one year, the students will be getting a break.<\/p>\n

The university, seeing that students are flowing onto campus for \u201cfree\u201d now, will do whatever it takes to grow the student base. Granted, that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing now.<\/p>\n

But, the state will never increase that $6,000 per student payout. So, future tuition raises will just be shuffled off to more housing fees, more student recreation fees, library use fees\u2026honest, it\u2019s amazing how nobody sees this coming, even when it\u2019s already arrived. Again, that\u2019s rather what we\u2019re doing now.<\/p>\n

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders should know this, because he <\/em>introduced a bill<\/em><\/a> into the Senate last year that would have regulated tuition increases and would have also forced colleges and universities to spend more on instruction instead of administration.<\/em><\/p>\n

See, this is why Sanders should have been allowed to speak, he has some ideas that should be heard. Administrative costs are huge, every time someone does the math on costs, it\u2019s clear only around 10% of tuition is necessary to pay the costs of education, and the rest just supports a bloated bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

Trouble is, Sanders\u2019 idea would fail. See, admin gets to determine what costs are for \u201cinstruction\u201d and what costs are for \u201cadministration.\u201d They already play this game when it comes to calculating the faculty\/student ratio, which has been unchanged for decades despite faculty numbers being level while student populations quadruple.<\/p>\n

How did admin accomplish such wizardry? Admin just reclassifies staff and admin as faculty. I\u2019ve seen many administrators who have never set foot in a classroom or written a sentence of academic research nonetheless call themselves faculty, I\u2019ve even seen them win \u201cfaculty\u201d awards (chosen by admin, of course), while faculty are forced to applaud the success of the \u201cpeer.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, yes, Sanders is right that we should reign in administrative costs\u2026but as long as administrators get to decide those costs, it won\u2019t make any difference.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s amazing to consider the numbers involved, and watching admin drool for MOAR:<\/p>\n

CUNY has been at or near peak enrollment in recent years, totaling 274,357 students systemwide in 2015. But at least some college presidents said they could take a moderate increase driven by the Cuomo plan.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI could take 5\u00a0percent — I could probably even take a 10\u00a0percent increase in enrollment,\u201d said Gail Mellow, LaGuardia Community College president. \u201cI couldn’t take 50\u00a0percent.\u201d<\/em>
\nOh, don\u2019t be shy, Gail, I\u2019m sure you\u2019d find a way for 50% more students if you had to. I\u2019ve been on campuses with this sort of growth (because these sorts of schemes pop up every decade or so), and seen the trailers get hauled on campus overnight in response to a fast increase in the \u201cstudent\u201d base, while admin tells me that I need to sacrifice quality for quantity yet again.<\/p>\n

Nowadays, I just don\u2019t see how 50% more growth is possible, given around 84% of the population gets sucked into college at some point<\/a>. Why don\u2019t our \u201cleaders\u201d in higher education understand that 50% growth is impossible when you\u2019re already at 84%?<\/p>\n

I just don\u2019t understand why \u201chigher education\u201d is such a huge government mandate. We already have a free library system and the internet, so before we expand higher education even further, we need to honestly ask:<\/p>\n

What exactly does higher education offer, over already existing free resources, such that society won\u2019t be satisfied until every citizen is shoved into it?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m hard pressed to figure out an answer. We\u2019re already at 84%…what could possibly be gained by making it 100%? We need to answer this question, because ultimately the goal of \u201cfree education\u201d schemes is to put more people into college. Seeing as such schemes so far have created a massive higher education bubble and financially crippled more than 20,000,000 students, true leaders would be hesitant about growing such a failed system. Instead, they drool at the prospect of MOAR.<\/p>\n

Can anyone suggest why we need to grow a system that already sucks 84% of our citizens into it?<\/p>\n

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