Eliiminate Student Loans
Question: And make college FREE to anyone maintaining a B or higher average.
Why should education K thru 12 be free, and a College degree cost $50K to $200K? Makes no sense to me. Here are NEEDED education reforms:
1. Go back to the days where high schools prepared SOME students for blue collar and service jobs. Starting in junior year of high school, there should be JOB TRAINING courses for those who elect.
2. Have more 1-year and 2-year community college associate degrees.
3. Pay college professors by semester-hours actually taught. About $2500 per semester hour seems right ($100K /yr for a full 20 teaching in-class hours per week work load, with 20 office hours per week).
4. Get rid of all the bullshit “research” and “paid sabbaticals” at universities. Colleges are for EDUCATION, not for profs to fuck off.
5. Pay college presidents a high school principal’s pay. $100K / year.
6. Cut football scholarships to 25, and pay the coaches $100K max.
Colleges now are wasting the money of the American people.
Answer: a) The monies paid by the sub-B average students, and FEDERAL subsidies, pay for maintenance. Resident students pay room and board.
b) The average College professor teaches FIVE hours per week. The biggest cost of a College education is faculty. By making the lazy bastards TEACH something close to a full load, and stop fucking around with research and paid sabbaticals, costs could be HALVED.
c) MOST big-time College football programs these days are money LOSERS. A class is 2.5 hours per week. Teaching universities have their instructors teach 5 classes a week, which is 12.5 hours per week in the classroom. Research universities have instructors do 2 classes, which is 5 hours per week. But that is just in the classroom. I am a TA for a teacher at my university and my teacher puts another 10-15 hours into creating the class (making up the lectures, making sure the lectures are up-to-date, making up exams, homework, etc). And I don’t see why you have a problem with research or sabbaticals. Research advances knowledge and supports graduate students. Sabbaticals are a chance for professors to learn about their area outside of the university. My professor went to Greece and Africa to study his area in other countries. He then came back and taught that information to us.
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