Government funding is destroying our colleges.
USA Today Magazine › Vol. 123 Nbr. 2596, January 1995
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College finances have become unstable as institutions increasingly rely on federal and state subsidies. Subsidizing tuition through grants and loans has caused costs to increase. Financial reform will help to solve the academic and moral crises in higher education.
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Government funding is destroying our colleges.
IF I HAVE LEARNED anything at all in my career as an educator, it is this: Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.
American higher education is a perfect example. In the 1960s, the total budget for all colleges and universities was about $7,000,000,000; in the early 1990s, largely because of massive state and Federal funding increases, it surpassed $170,000,-000,000. Yet, tens of thousands of college seniors do not know when Columbus sailed to the New World, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, or why the Civil War was fought. Businesses rightly complain that they must re-educate college graduates in such basic academic skills as grammar, spelling, and practical math. The effect of government subsidy and control has been more p...See the full content of this document
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