What happened at Sanders U.

[NCTexan]

Politico:

What happened at Sanders U.

 

When Jane Sanders was in charge of a small private college in Vermont for seven years, it sank deep into debt while trying to expand its campus. Many students took out tens of thousands of dollars in loans to attend, but their investment was questionable: Only a third of former Burlington College students earn more than the average person with a high school diploma.

 

Jane Sanders’ husband, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, has offered a higher-education plan that would make tuition at public colleges free. But it would do little to prod colleges, public or private, to keep costs down or ensure that a college degree is worthwhile for graduates.

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Jane Sanders, who led Burlington College from 2004 to 2011, spent millions on a new campus — 33 acres along the bank of Lake Champlain — to attract more students and donations from alumni. It didn’t work: The college failed to recruit enough students or donations to repay its debts and even came close to losing its accreditation.

 

[righteousmomma]

I did not know you had posted this, NCT.

Very interesting new info on the Sanders couple.

 

The college was most likely “not being as careful as it needs to be,” said Ben Miller, senior director for higher education at the Center for American Progress. Sanders reportedly took a $200,000 severance package, and the college was attempting to attract students with new master’s degree programs — a signal to analysts that it was desperate for revenue.

 

Justified or not this prompts me to say that if colleges and universities stop paying outrages salaries to both tenured and non tenured professors and lowered their costs in other financial ways perhaps tuitions would be lower.

 

 

The lessons Kelchen and others draw from Burlington College can apply more broadly to public higher education, too. Costs for educating students at public colleges and universities have ticked up faster than inflation in recent years, and public institutions have become more reliant on tuition — especially from out-of-state students, who typically pay far more than those from in-state — over the past 25 years. The question facing all of higher education is how to keep costs down and provide students with the best education possible.

 

“I didn’t know how long the college was going to last. I thought, ‘I hope I get my degree before it shuts down,’” Morrow said. He graduated in spring 2015 and says he’s still interested in pursuing film, though he doesn’t have a full-time job in the field. He said he supports Bernie Sanders, in part because of Sanders’s plan for eliminating public school tuition.

“Maybe I would have gone to a free school” had there been one available, Morrow added.

 

Clinton has criticized Sanders’ proposal on the grounds that it would ignore the cost problem and give a free education to students who don’t need it. In other words, Clinton has said she’s “not in favor of making college free for Donald Trump’s kids.”
During one of the Democratic debates, Sanders’ retort to Clinton focused on the symbolic right to a free college education.
“This is 2016,” Sanders said. “When we talk about public education, it can no longer be K through 12th grade.”

 

 

These quotes might be a good place to define the word "free". Ain't nothing free. But death and taxes are a certainty.

[SrWoodchuck]

Ignorance Abounds While Supporters "MoveOn" to Bernie

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUe-2Wu3HUE&feature=player_embedded

 

Via BonedJello

[Valin]

Ignorance Abounds While Supporters "MoveOn" to Bernie

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUe-2Wu3HUE&feature=player_embedded

 

Via BonedJello

 

 

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