No joke. And this follows last year's 30 percent tuition increase. My degree's getting more expensive by the minute.
And its value might be shrinking. This $372 million cut faced by the University of California system, following on the heels of similar cuts each year for the past four years, has the preseident of the UC system "deeply concerned" about the quality of education that UC can provide. Many people consider Berkeley the best public university on the planet, but how long can that reputation be maintained without funding?
Posted by sean at January 13, 2004 12:14 PM | TrackBack (0)That's excellent. That way nobody'll be smarter than he is.
Posted by: evan on January 26, 2004 08:04 PMAnother thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.
Posted by: Richard Feynman on July 8, 2004 06:25 AMA tuition increase? Gasp! No government funding? Oh, no! You might actually have to pay UC Berkley enough money to cover the actual cost of your degree? Horrors!
So, the governator is cutting off the feeding tough?
So sad, and just when I started back to grad school.
Oh, well. I paid for everything else ON MY OWN, what else is new?
ps
Call Mom and Dad. Quick. Send a check.
Dear Mr. "Ram0n:"
I'm about to tell you a story. It's a little complicated but don't be
frightened; if you read it slowly and pay attention, you can have ice
cream after its over.
Here goes: In Earth's developed nations, ALL the universities are funded
mostly by people and institutions other than the students. Yes, it's true
that college students generally don't make as much money as these other
people and institutions -- yet.
Nobody can run a pathetic diploma mill -- much less a quality university
-- based only on the students' current income. That's life.
I love dogs; I've had dogs all my life. For a dog, -now- is everything
and thinking about the past or the future is almost impossible. I've
learned to understand dogs, so I can understand the way you feel. But let
me teach you a new word: it's called "investment."
"Investment" means putting down resources -now- in hopes of returns
-tomorrow-. The scary part is that -now- you're losing your resources,
taking your money out of your pocket and you don't even get ice cream!
That's terrifying, isn't it? But listen to this -- concentrate now --
those students who consume that money for two or four years -now- will
earn a lot more money, pay more taxes and produce more resources after
they graduate, then they would have if they didn't go to school. They'll
pay for the students that come after them, and so on.
There! The worst is over. Good work! I know this is complicated and
scary, but believe it or not, "investment" is one of those foundations of
civilized society that almost every form of government depends on -- yes,
capitalism too.
So when that wise and friendly action hero you love so much cuts school
funding, he's not cutting wrongful and pointless handouts to the naughty
students who Rush Limbaugh and Sgt. Slaughter warn you about. He's
dramatically gouging the resources of everyone in the state, pillaging
society's most important investments and diverting that money to the
pockets of his rich corporate friends (and -not- to the taxpayers as
your favorite televangelists might claim).
Good work! Now enjoy your ice cream.
Love,
Sean