I had a higher education, burn while you learn!

Just have them read your blog and they'll really see how stupid people are. Then they'll put billions toward education…

amen, perez

Fucking A, and how about ending that costly fucking war now…

As a Professor at a local community college by me, I have to agree with you Perez. The fact that higher learning is taking a backseat to getting help, I am a bit worried about my future. I do have tenure yet, and unfortunately, they are starting to hire more adjuncts. The best thing to do would to high more full-time, but then that requires the University or College to provide healthcare to theses full time instructors.

I have also learned that where I did my M.A. at, in TN, their tuition is skyrocketing for the SPRING. They are currently experiencing the hiring freeze, and my former colleagues have informed me that they might need to start letting go professors in our department because of the amount of students leaving the major and the school altogether.

In case you would ike to know, I am a Professor of Communications.

Thanks for listening to my rant.

i'll be paying for 4 yrs of undergrad and 3 years of law school (7 years of higher ed) for 28 years…you do the math….we need help!

my school, the university of southern maine, is laying off ALL of its part time staff for next year/semesters…which is HORRIBLE because most of the good teachers are the part time ones, and the teachers who dont care about their students grades are the full time ones…what happened to quality vs. quantity?

We have been on a downward slope for 8 years - this is not a surprise. I have 2 nephew and 1 niece in college now, with a 4th starting in the fall - its utterly sickening, and I'm only thankful they are getting sports scholarships, though academia is more their "thing."
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My sister and her husband saw this coming for their 3 children - those kids HAD to excel at sports.
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What is so sad is before this insipid war, many had joined the service to get an education - then, the FAKE WAR - and some were killed - it was their only means to get higher-level degrees.
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anyone out there that does not see the damage the Republican Administration has done is blind — and the fact the GOP is still pandering S. Palin is a TRUE INDICATION NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
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Never, ever vote republican.

Re: TSS – Heehee. Truth.

This is horrible.
America is just going down the drain.
I can't believe they let it get this way.

So as far as the idea that they are making more funds available to students, that is a problem, but a lot of people don't know about a bigger problem that is starting to occur at colleges across the US. I have no problems with financial aid, because my parents invested in a prepaid college program, but i am still feeling the problems with the lack of funds. I go to FSU and because of all the education cuts, not only are they raising tuition, but they are also now starting to cut back on the classes offered and the amount of people that can actually take the classes because they cant afford to run the class. I have a major problem with the fact that i am paying thousands of dollars to get my degree, and then not being able to get into the classes that i need, all because they cant afford to give them. This is something that the federal government needs to fix, and they need to fix it fast.

GOOD
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maybe if the professors would ACTUALLY teach the curriculum instead of indoctrinating and brainwashing students this may not have happened
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TENURE should NOT entitle a teacher to a job FOREVER.

Perez, what DON'T you understand about the GOP.?! Keeping people stupid is the only way they stand a chance. FYI, you live in a city with the worst schools in the nation because Bush's No Child Left Behind policies force teaches to teach to the level of the slowest kids in the class (which in L.A. are kids with no English who spend half the year in rural Mexico and will NEVER be at "grade level"). They are TRYING to destroy public education. If you're going to talk politics and policy you OWE YOUR READERS to at least do some of the basic research on the subject.

Don't worry, at the rate we're going, everyone will be employed by the federal gov't and we will not have to worry about our future.

Yeah, I'm a college student and it's almost impossible to find loans anymore. My best friend will most likely have to drop out because they froze all loans applied for after August. Having fewer educated people is going to hurt our country even more. It's scary.

Right, Perez, did YOUR stupid ass go to college?

Stop pretending like you know fucking anything, you useless piece of shit.

Re: adt –

Actually he DID attend college. NYU to be exact!!!

Re: SheriMoonZombie – You are welcome to debate me anytime, provided you can learn to speak and write like, let's say at least, the high school level.
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I've seen your tripe - come up with documented facts, and we'll talk.

Life is scientifically like business or wildlife. Pyramid shaped. Clerks are at the bottom of the food chain and number many, Executives are at the apex of the pyramid and number few. Rodents number many, foxes and birds of prey number few.
Likewise, Testing should be done to decide who is admitted to university. Why waste time in the fallacy of handing out meaningless degrees to dumb-dumbs, when we should be finding and grooming only our intellectual youth in our colleges and universities…???
Somebody's got to dig ditches, wait tables, do my hair, and do my nails.

They're cutting state-sponsored higher ed by at least 2% in Virginia….I think my tuition is going up about $3000 a semester Luckily I go to a public school so it won't be too much more expensive, but I can't even imagine what it will cost to go private.

Getting into classes is impossible here, with 30,000 students. Now of course that they're eliminating professors, classes offered, and making class sizes even smaller, I don't know if I'll be able to graduate on time simply because I can't take the classes I need for my degree!

Here, here Perez! Tuition keeps getting higher and higher, but no ones wages are increasing. My school's been forced to cut funding to programs like the Office of the Victim Advocate, which helps those who have been sexually abused or raped. It's just awful how education has taken a backseat to, well, pretty much everything.

Amen, Perez! This issue does not get enough attention. As a country our test scores are falling, drop out rates are rising and kids in inner city schools have to bring their own toilet paper to school because the school isn't providing it due to budget cuts. This will be America's demise if we don;t do something about it.

GRADUATE LOAN FORGIVENESS!!!!! PUSH FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dude this is jacked up….P-rez what can u do to help…I say u should start blogging more about these injustices instead of the fucking stupid famous ppl…I am sick of hearing about day after day…tho I do choose to log in I am getting a bit sick of the same ol…let's start a revolution…pretty pls?

I just got an email today from the president of my university that they are increasing the tuition next semester by $400.
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this is getting ridiculous.

Perez you appear very unintelligent when you post shit like this. First of all the government has been involved in our public school systems for a long time and they are F'd UP… so thanks, but no thanks.. Stick to your issues like Prop 8 and other trash like that and keep government out of our Colleges and your ignorant opinion of this to you self….. it bores me.

A College Sophomore

"Instead of bailing out ALL these huge institutions, the U.S. government needs to help out our institutions of higher learning!"

I couldn't agree more!! This fallout, I believe, is the direct result of 1980's corporate greed. They've been running their businesses with a lot of bad attitudes and tactics for decades and this is the result. You can't have success for too long when you're getting it at the expense of others. Companies need to treat their customers and employees with respect, pay fair wages and benefits and not try to rip people off. Unhappy workers don't do more than the bare minimum to earn their paychecks, hence the poor quality of many USA-manufactured goods and lack of consumer interest in buying them or of dealing with the shitty customer "service" of such companies.

Additionally, the economy would not be suffering as much if more attention was paid to offering more people a chance at higher education. These people, with further education, could be contributing to society and improving it, rather than ending up in poverty for lack of being able to get a decent job or turning to crime to make the money they can't make legally.

many schools are also lowering the maximum number of units students can take in a semester. so much for graduating in 4, even 5 years. as if tuition hasn't gone up enough in the past few years (when i started it was just over $1000/ semester, it's gone up to roughly $1800/ semester), it's gonna go through the roof now!

America is GOING DOWN

great point perez… i graduate from college next semester and in addition to already having enough loans to pay off they announced yesterday that our tuition is being raised hundreds of dollars for the semester. Stop giving people billions of dollars who cant live without vacations or private jets and let us get our education

*** If we make it harder for the youth of America to get an education, then this country is really fucked! ***

Why? They can all be homo bloggers like you and make a living.

Amen.

Seriously what the hell are they thinking and doing over there? A country full of morons without any education…oh yeah that's sure to fix ALL of our problems. Ughs. Fucking stupid!

Re: sexygayrepublican – Because american auto companies pay taxes that makes the tuition lower for college students. When the economy is not doing well, the tuition increases because of this lost tax money.

NO, Perez is right. There are budget cuts everywhere! My university might raise tuition, cut teacher assistants, payroll salary, lesser classes! It is scary! How is our country going to progress if no one can afford higher education?? Yeah, this country is going to be fucked, not now, but in the future. All the people now who can't afford education, will not advance later on in life. Getting out of poverty is getting an education. If college is going to be more expensive, then the people in poverty will not have a chance to get out of poverty. Yeah there are those small chances that they get lucky and win the lottery, etc, but for 99% of the rest of poor people are going to remain poor and the rich is going to get richer.
Don't call Perez a freakin idiot, if you don't go to college yourself and not put in the position where you can't go to a university, because you can't afford it anymore. Some people WANT to have an education. People need to stfu if they don't know shit.

tell me about it - my school district is facing a 10% cutout in spending, and all UC colleges are raising by TEN PERCENT their fees…and cutitng back about 10000 in admissions total in state! yikes =/