Easy does it with the "politics". I refrained and so can you.
I understand your point concerning the varying cost of various courses but there is no reason to go there. The issue is the AVERAGE cost of educating a student versus what the colleges are actually charging. It's an interesting question whether at some point we will have "no-frills" universities where the students do the reading and watch the lectures on line. Then mail in their papers and tests and get graded. We will still have things like the LSAT and GRE to guage actual student achievement and performance. What you miss out on are the community and comraderie of university life ; living away from home ; personally interacting with the professors etc. My guess is that for a lot of people the trade-off would be well worth it based on radically reduced costs.
Here's another issue , especially for the public universities : How much subsidizing ought there be ( by both the taxpayers and tuition paying students ) for low demand majors ? If economics and engineering are in greatest demand and offer the best chance of of post grad employment why should things like "Women's Studies" ; "African -American Studies" ; Art History or even Classical Languages be subsidized ? The obvious answer is that it would mean the death knell for "Liberal Arts" which is arguably not a good thing. Not good for students and not good for society at large. Many employers have expressed preference for well rounded graduates so the English Departments ought to be safe. But ultimately it comes down to how much Liberal Education we can afford and are willing to pay for.




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