Limiting to only those who can pay won't work for universities. They
need to fill the seats -- because of the cost structure heavy with
overhead costs. So they raise tuition to extract the maximum from
those who can pay it, then discount some seats (calling it student
aid) to raise at least some revenue from those who can pay something.
They -- as did the airlines -- have now pushed it too far, and have
encountered resistance from even the wealthier students. (The
airlines kept raising business fares and discounting leisure tickets.
But the business flyers moved over to Southwest and video
conferencing. The golden goose went down like the flight doomed by
cost cutting recently near Buffalo.)
Gene Coyle
On Jun 4, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Bill Lear wrote:
On Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 11:42:06 (-0700) raghu writes:
A little while back, I posed a question on PEN-L about the reasons
for
the recent inflation in costs of higher education. Many people
knowledgeable in the ways of the academy pointed to administrative
costs and the trend towards "corporatization" as one of the main
contributors. ...
What about simply wishing to limit access only to those with the
ability to pay --- good old-fashioned class warfare from above?
Bill
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