Re: Elle in the portal
Originally Posted by
NI4NI
From solely a fiscal standpoint, there should not be any programs (athletic or otherwise) that consume funds that should be going towards educational value of the students. How does lacrosse (or whatever you choose to pick on) benefit anyone once they enter the job market?
Tell that to the schools who pay professors mediocre wages yet spend tens of millions annually on making their campuses look like country clubs. Higher education has become a joke because administrators funnel public dollars to things the public couldn’t care less about.
Build more luxury dorms to attract more rich students so you can siphon off all their parents’ money. Meanwhile the students are unhappy, professors are jaded towards admin and the public wants to reduce spending to education. And here we all sit around pretending like there’s no answer to fixing higher education costs.
Edit - a very large part of my love for NDSU is the fact that they haven’t got caught up in that arms race and you can still get an outstanding education there affordably. I had a small scholarship but was able to have all debt paid off within one year of graduation. Moving to Texas and working with engineers that came out of UT, A&M, OU, etc., I got a better education for a third the price. Most are still paying on loans 5 years later.
Last edited by NDSU92; 04-12-2024 at 10:36 AM.
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