California is deeply in debt and the state university systems are looking to get more from students. (Perhaps, counting on Obama to have more money printed and given to students.) Of course, it doesn’t help that illegal aliens not only get in-state rates, but are set to start getting taxpayer grants for higher education. Lou Ponsi and Fermin Leal report for the Orange County Register.
What is the point of these theatrics? Oh, that's right. Media attention. Why does the media cover it? To show us the results of false promises and spoiling children? It isn't news if students aren't happy about the possibility of paying more. It would be news if they supported raising tuition/fees.
So raising revenue for the university system in attacking education? How does that follow? Perhasps Belleci needs a good class about logic.
Sure you can. It is done all of the time, often by "ethnicity".
More than 100?!? WOW!
And the Los Angeles Times had coverage as well, from Maria L. La Ganga and Carla Rivera.
No argument from me on that one.
Who cares? What kind of job are you going to get in that joke of a program anyway? Who needs to go to school for that? I’ve been involved in studying women most of my life.
The leaders of California announced long ago that just about anyone in California, including illegal aliens, who wants to get a university degree, should have relatively easy (in terms of availability and tuition/fees) access to a university education. Thus, a two-tiered state university system was built - University of California, and California State University, the landscape was flooded with community colleges, and the word went out that a quality "affordable" university education was being promised to the people of California (and Mexico, and...).
So now we've created a situation where a heckuva lot of people assume they have a "right" to this, without having to pay the full costs of it. Whenever there is mere talk of raising the amount that the students have to pay, there are protests.
Listening to some of the protesting students in news coverage, it is quite clear that a lot of them have already been thoroughly indoctrinated into Leftist victricrat mentality... I heard one say, for example, "This is a bunch of rich white men trying to kick minorities and the the poor out of the education system!" Never mind that everyone in California is a "minority". Many of these protesters believe they have a right to a university education without paying more for it.
I do have some sympathy for most of the students impacted by this. It was foolish of the state to make promises to them we couldn't keep. If these students were raised in California, then their parents (at least the ones who actually pay taxes, instead of having it all refunded) have been paying for the university system in their taxes. They planned on their education costing a certain amount of money, and now it is going to directly cost them significantly more.
This is the problem when governments promise things they can't deliver. California is facing billions of dollars in deficis - again. Either the students are going to pay more or taxpayers, many of whom do not use the state university system, are going to have to pay all of the cost increases.
Perhaps the UC system should institute a policy that freezes rates for continuous students. I'm not talking about the kind of student who stays in college forever (yes, I have seen that). But especially for students who make it through in four or five years, how can they possibly plan and budget when they have no idea if the increase is going to be five percent or thirty percent? Of course, this would force the university system to either get more tax money or charge incoming students more, and I would opt for charging incoming students more. That might mean that students have to put off going into the university system another year as they work to save up the money, but it simply isn't moral or in the spirit of our Constitution to force me to pay even more in taxes so that people I don't know can get a UC degree.
Ultimately, we should adopt a policy, starting with higher education, of “separation of state and school”. Let's change that law. Privatize the schools. Let private institutions, nonprofits, businesses or anyone else who is interested take them over, or shut them down and sell the property.
The academy has largely been taken over by the Left, and so Leftists want as many people as possible to spend as much time as possible in higher education. And they’ve unionized so many of the jobs on campus, so the Left wants more of those jobs so that the unions will have more dues money to spend on Leftist politicans and causes.
Previously:
"We Spend More on Prisons Than on Schools!"
We Need Separation of State and School
Instructors and Students Should Learn Reality
Cal State University Fullerton students – angered by the possibility of yet another tuition hike and by university trustees they say don't serve students' best interests – demonstrated Tuesday in the campus quad. Protests aren’t going to make any more money.
What is the point of these theatrics? Oh, that's right. Media attention. Why does the media cover it? To show us the results of false promises and spoiling children? It isn't news if students aren't happy about the possibility of paying more. It would be news if they supported raising tuition/fees.
Cal State University trustees will meet Wednesday in Long Beach to consider another fee hike, this time for 9 percent, for the system's 23 campuses. That would mean an additional $498 for undergraduate students, bringing the annual tuition to $5,970 starting next fall.
"Make no mistake ... this is an attack on education," said graduate student John Belleci, a member of the Student California Teachers Association, the group that helped organize the demonstration.
So raising revenue for the university system in attacking education? How does that follow? Perhasps Belleci needs a good class about logic.
Belleci led chants: "Students united, we can't be divided."
Sure you can. It is done all of the time, often by "ethnicity".
At one point, the group, which at times swelled to 100-plus, marched around the quad. Many held signs: "Stop raising our tuition," and "Stop the hikes."
More than 100?!? WOW!
Across the state, other CSU and University of California campus had similar protests. The largest was at UC Berkeley, where hundreds of students and anti-Wall Street activists converged on the campus for a day of protests and another attempt to establish an Occupy Cal camp after a failed effort last week led to dozens of arrests.
And the Los Angeles Times had coverage as well, from Maria L. La Ganga and Carla Rivera.
At Cal State Fullerton, student Karley White held a sign that read "We are living proof that the system is broken."
No argument from me on that one.
White, a women's studies major, said that budget cuts make it hard to get the classes she needs to graduate and that she fears another tuition hike will sink her further in debt.
Who cares? What kind of job are you going to get in that joke of a program anyway? Who needs to go to school for that? I’ve been involved in studying women most of my life.
The leaders of California announced long ago that just about anyone in California, including illegal aliens, who wants to get a university degree, should have relatively easy (in terms of availability and tuition/fees) access to a university education. Thus, a two-tiered state university system was built - University of California, and California State University, the landscape was flooded with community colleges, and the word went out that a quality "affordable" university education was being promised to the people of California (and Mexico, and...).
So now we've created a situation where a heckuva lot of people assume they have a "right" to this, without having to pay the full costs of it. Whenever there is mere talk of raising the amount that the students have to pay, there are protests.
Listening to some of the protesting students in news coverage, it is quite clear that a lot of them have already been thoroughly indoctrinated into Leftist victricrat mentality... I heard one say, for example, "This is a bunch of rich white men trying to kick minorities and the the poor out of the education system!" Never mind that everyone in California is a "minority". Many of these protesters believe they have a right to a university education without paying more for it.
I do have some sympathy for most of the students impacted by this. It was foolish of the state to make promises to them we couldn't keep. If these students were raised in California, then their parents (at least the ones who actually pay taxes, instead of having it all refunded) have been paying for the university system in their taxes. They planned on their education costing a certain amount of money, and now it is going to directly cost them significantly more.
This is the problem when governments promise things they can't deliver. California is facing billions of dollars in deficis - again. Either the students are going to pay more or taxpayers, many of whom do not use the state university system, are going to have to pay all of the cost increases.
Perhaps the UC system should institute a policy that freezes rates for continuous students. I'm not talking about the kind of student who stays in college forever (yes, I have seen that). But especially for students who make it through in four or five years, how can they possibly plan and budget when they have no idea if the increase is going to be five percent or thirty percent? Of course, this would force the university system to either get more tax money or charge incoming students more, and I would opt for charging incoming students more. That might mean that students have to put off going into the university system another year as they work to save up the money, but it simply isn't moral or in the spirit of our Constitution to force me to pay even more in taxes so that people I don't know can get a UC degree.
Ultimately, we should adopt a policy, starting with higher education, of “separation of state and school”. Let's change that law. Privatize the schools. Let private institutions, nonprofits, businesses or anyone else who is interested take them over, or shut them down and sell the property.
The academy has largely been taken over by the Left, and so Leftists want as many people as possible to spend as much time as possible in higher education. And they’ve unionized so many of the jobs on campus, so the Left wants more of those jobs so that the unions will have more dues money to spend on Leftist politicans and causes.
Previously:
"We Spend More on Prisons Than on Schools!"
We Need Separation of State and School
Instructors and Students Should Learn Reality
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