Daily Caller:
As tuition costs soar to astronomical heights across the U.S., one Republican-led state is leading the charge in the battle to rein in greedy universities.
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun has moved to tackle the problem head-on, announcing on June 24 that all 15 of Indiana’s public colleges and universities have committed to keeping tuition rates flat for the upcoming academic years following the governor’s request. Many politicians have become complacent in following the lead of schools rather than challenging them to find ways to stay affordable for students and families, Braun told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“You had to be a little entrepreneurial, and you had to just push the envelope,” Braun said of his efforts. “When you have governors and state governments that just abided and act like there’s nothing you can do, that’s going to give the latitude for schools to think that there’s a never-ending spigot, which is finally starting to tap itself out.” more
Maybe it is time to stop calling courses like gender studies, women, studies, etc. actual degree programs.
Maybe they only get a certificate of study because these programs lead to nothing but government or college jobs if that where they continue to push this garbage
If students want to waste money on that fine but those fields should not be worthy a college degree.
Stop the taxpayer funding, the taxpayer-guaranteed loans, etc and watch the costs plummet. When the ONLY MONEY available to pay tuition MUST come from the students and their parents, costs will magically fall. And please don’t say that only the rich will be able to afford the costs. If a college wants to stay in business, they need students…costs will fall.
CrazyLady, throw in degree programs in social work and sociology as well. And any classes that teach community organizing.
MrLiberty – I’ll go you one further. If all the students simply refused to register until the prices come down, they would free-fall back to reality.
@CrazyLady: “Maybe it is time to stop calling courses like gender studies, women, studies, etc. actual degree programs.” Those are also known as Starbucks degrees, because that’s where grads of these majors will wind up working.
Well, Apparently no one fact checked for this article. Purdue is a public university serving Indiana not a private university like Harvard. The 2025 incoming Purdue Student class is only 41% Indiana Residents, 4693 students, so who cares if the tuition stays flat when you have to find a private university to send your student to. Also Purdue university currently has 13,000 international students enrolled Harvard has 6,793 (Yes, the schools are different sizes but still, pot meet kettle). This swell governor punted on the property tax reductions he ran on (Mine have doubled in the last 6 years going up 20% alone this year) and managed to make Indiana the first state that will be able to turn existing highways into toll roads. Indiana’s gas taxes already rank 4th highest in the nation at a total 56.1 cents per gallon, according to the Tax Foundation and its still not enough to maintain out roads which may be ranked the worst in the nation.
But sure Purdue and the State of Indiana is not greedy I guess, just liars or complete incompetents.