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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 907021" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>1. Yes. Costs are way out of line, lar4gely due to the enormous expansion of administrative staff and the salaries paid them. Faculty salaries - minus adjuncts, mind - are stagnant in real terms. Also, schools have to lay on a lot of unnecessary stuff - like, say, inter collegiate athletics - to say competitive. A quick look at OECD stats on this shows that the only country that has even half of these kinds of expenditures for post-secondary education is the UK. Oh, and the economy is making a difference only not the way you think. The unemployment rate in the US shows a direct <em>negative</em> relationship with college admissions; when unemployment is low, people don't retreat to college to wait for better times and admissions are lower. Same as for the Army, btw.</p><p></p><p>2. Yes. Schools like Tech can pick and chose since their degrees have greater value. Trade schools - I guess you mean business and such programs at colleges - also do well, comparatively. If you mean community. colleges, however, you wrong. They are on life support all over the country. Again, low unemployment –> low admissions, especially at that level.</p><p></p><p>3. One other thing: colleges and universities are always looking for candidates with high test scores. There are the obvious reasons, but the other is that they raise the average scores for the institutions. That makes it easier, if you are a state institution, to admit young people with lower scores and still ;look good to state legislatures. "See! We have students from all over the state - including from <em>your</em> district - and we still are <em>a prestige school! Give us more money!" </em>Sometimes this works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 907021, member: 265"] 1. Yes. Costs are way out of line, lar4gely due to the enormous expansion of administrative staff and the salaries paid them. Faculty salaries - minus adjuncts, mind - are stagnant in real terms. Also, schools have to lay on a lot of unnecessary stuff - like, say, inter collegiate athletics - to say competitive. A quick look at OECD stats on this shows that the only country that has even half of these kinds of expenditures for post-secondary education is the UK. Oh, and the economy is making a difference only not the way you think. The unemployment rate in the US shows a direct [I]negative[/I] relationship with college admissions; when unemployment is low, people don't retreat to college to wait for better times and admissions are lower. Same as for the Army, btw. 2. Yes. Schools like Tech can pick and chose since their degrees have greater value. Trade schools - I guess you mean business and such programs at colleges - also do well, comparatively. If you mean community. colleges, however, you wrong. They are on life support all over the country. Again, low unemployment –> low admissions, especially at that level. 3. One other thing: colleges and universities are always looking for candidates with high test scores. There are the obvious reasons, but the other is that they raise the average scores for the institutions. That makes it easier, if you are a state institution, to admit young people with lower scores and still ;look good to state legislatures. "See! We have students from all over the state - including from [I]your[/I] district - and we still are [I]a prestige school! Give us more money!" [/I]Sometimes this works. [/QUOTE]
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