Federal appeals court blocks remainder of Biden's student debt relief plan

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10. As The Son Of A University Professor/CIO...

I’d like to see the states actually fund their universities properly instead of hacking budgets and basically making us pay twice: Once in taxes that support the universities and then again in increasing tuition and fees.

Fees are where we really get nailed. Computer lab fees. Science lab fees. Athletics fees (this one really pisses me off. Athletics are a money sink for most schools, so they soak the students to cover the shortfalls).

A US student can go to school in Germany (provided they’re accepted) and not pay a damned dime except living expenses. Californians used to go to school for free…until St Ronnie of Raygun. North Carolina used to be quite affordable (state constitution says college is supposed to be as close to free as practicable). But the GOPQ-balls hacked the entire system’s budget enough to eliminate an entire campus (which was their intention, as we have some quality HBCUs in the UNC system). As a result, not only has tuition increased, but fees jumped exponentially. What used to cost between $2k and $5k per semester in the 00s to early 10s, now costs around $25k per year…at one of the more affordable schools in the state. And that’s for in state students. Out of state students pay about double.

We used to get students here from up North because it cost less to go to college here than community colleges did in their home states!