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[acroyear]

The Bonddad Blog: Macroeconomics is a rancid, putrefying pseudoscience:

Put more simply: we avoided Great Depression 2.0 in 2009 because we remember the history of the Great Depression. But we peered into the abyss because we forgot the 1920's and repeated in more modern form almost all that decade's vices. We do have lots of data from the 1920's - but nobody in power believed it was relevant any more.

Newt, May 15, 2011 Meet the Press | TPMDC:

I've said consistently we ought to have some requirement that you either have health insurance or you post a bond or in some way you indicate you're going to be held accountable

Newt, May 16, 2011 Youtube | TPMDC:

I am for the repeal of Obamacare and I am against any effort to impose a federal mandate on anyone because it is fundamentally wrong and I believe unconstitutional

Hyperbole (and Progressive Bloggers) Fail Me: The End of Public Higher Education « zunguzungu:

At a certain point, public universities will have ceased to exist. We will only have a variety of private universities, some of which will be subsidized a little bit by tax-payers. Depending on where you draw the line, the University of California might already be at that point — student tuition now makes up a larger portion of the UC’s budget than state funding — but the long-term trend is undeniable: since 2004, the amount of money the UC has gotten from the state of California has been cut in half, and has continued to decline, every year, with utter and complete reliability. And where the UC and CSU systems are now, every other public university will soon follow. This is not a trend that’s going to end tomorrow. This is a trend that ends with the end of public universities. It just depends on where you decide to draw the line.

The Koch Brothers and the End of State Universities | Informed Comment:

This abandonment of their responsibilities to higher education on the part of the states hurts students in the first instance. Institutions that used to be affordable to students from working and lower middle class backgrounds are now increasingly out of reach for them. State universities are becoming the new Ivies, a good bargain still for the upper middle class and the wealthy, but a distant dream for the daughter or son of a worker in a fast food restaurant.

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[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

Not only is the state paying less towards the operation of the university, it is insisting on more oversight. At some point, the universities will thumb their collective noses at the state, go 'private' ... or 'for-profit' and do their own thing. At that point the in-state and out-of-state tuition differential will probably go away and tuition will be somewhere between the 2 (my guess would be somewhere in the neighborhood of in-state + .66(out-state - in-state) but it might be higher.

At my institution, it has been several years since tuition revenue was higher than state appropriations.

With luck, states will continue to fund some of the building on campuses but I suspect even that will go within the next 50 years.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

actually, if the trends continue, attendance will start to drop at the universities, so the need to build new buildings will drop as well. the only counter to that will be a great consolidation.

there are actually some 30 state/state-supported schools in VA, but most people can actually only name about 10. while the smaller schools are good, they're getting almost no attention at all so their state allocations are likely the first to drop in favor of a reputation-holder schools like VaTech, JMU, and UVA. So what I can expect us to see is that smaller schools (and smaller spin-off campuses) start to shrink or just go away, or maybe get consolidated as spin-off campuses of the larger schools, thus bringing them under a single administration model.

in other words, the states are going to start treating the schools like commercial enterprises and put them through commercial expense-shrinking practices because commercial business is all they know (or at least, all they're expected to know by the electorate today).

and that, of course, means more layoffs and higher unemployment, as the electorate just doesn't understand that reducing government spending means no longer spending on people who were doing real jobs.

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

Well the 2-year schools and the 4-year schools are often handled separately in the budget process and in a lot of other ways (here the CCs have their alumni survey on a different cycle than the 4-years; they report transfer rates to 4-years; their financial aid reports are different (I think); their remedial education reports are different; etc.).

Of the 15 4-year publics in VA, I probably could have come up with 8. Of the 23 Community Colleges, 1; and of the 2 year publics I wouldn't have even thought there was a separate grouping for them (well it). Since VA doesn't have a system, their processes are different than in MD. I also would have come up with RMC.

How many independent colleges in VA receive state funds (I think most of the ones in MD do ... not to be confused with the for-profits)?

Maryland is weird with the system + MICUA + the CC consortium + MHEC + MD Dept. of Ed all of which want their say in their area and some of which want to expand their areas (and budgets). All that said, it is getting EXPENSIVE to go to college (or work for one with furloughs).

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Another article about the squeezing of higher education: http://www.thenation.com/print/article/160410/faulty-towers-crisis

[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

Just as a note, your link is busted.

http://www.thenation.com/article/160410/faulty-towers-crisis-higher-education

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

oops. thanks!