ACTA's Must-Reads
« A lesson on the importance of trustee authority | Main | The Right Start for Brooklyn's Freshmen »
A student asking the right question
Too often, when higher education reform is discussed, students stay out of the conversation. This is unfortunate because when universities waste money, students are the ones who quite literally pay the price. Too often, students are insulated from the reality of high tuition because their schooling is financed by student loans. Those numbers in the balance book may not seem "real" to students when they take out loans -- though they assuredly will be when it comes time to pay the loans off.
Thankfully, University of South Carolina student Trevor Lightbody is an exception. Reporting on the South Carolina education summit, Lightbody notes the massive tuition increases in that state, and the fact that much of that spending went to administration, not teaching. He concludes, "It is easy for university leaders and trustees to be sidetracked, focusing more on competing with other universities to have the most up-to-date research facilities or most-published faculty, but why not be the best at producing educated and culturally aware graduates?"
Good question, Trevor.
Posted by Eric Markley on October 15, 2010 at October 15, 2010 09:14 AM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.goactablog.org/blog/mt-tb.cgi/822