Angry Graduate Wrote This Letter To His University. It's Hard Not To Agree With Him.

[Damansarajaya]

16. I work in higher ed, and I think the writer has some valid points.

1. The main reason that college education costs have risen so much is because the states keep cutting their funding. In 1985 for instance, about 80 percent of the Univ. of Mass was paid for by Mass. Now it's dropped to 25 percent.

However, a lot of top-tier and second-tier wanna-be schools spend big bucks on "name" professors and putting up shiny new buildings, while giving most of the teaching in the freshman and sophomore years to adjuncts and grad students.

That is unjustified and a complete rip-off.

A lot of money is going to paper-work for federal funding compliance and general administration. That also is "fat" that could be easily cut.

2. Shifting costs from taxpayers to students through confiscatory loans ought to be criminal. We're not taxing the Koch Bros. so that some janitor's kid can rack up enough debt to buy a house. It's pure injustice.

3. Colleges should have to provide statistics on how many of their graduates get full-time work in a field related to their major within, say, five years of graduation. That's only fair.