Profs at UW-Madison Want First Two Years of College to be Free
I’m just thinking out loud here but… Isn’t kind of hard to pay professors if no one is paying for college?
The Daily Cardinal reported.
UW-Madison professors propose making first two years of college free
Students could have their first two years of public university paid for by the federal government, according to a plan proposed by University of Wisconsin-Madison professors.
Sara Goldrick-Rab and Nancy Kendall, associate professors of educational policy studies at UW-Madison, have been working on a paper detailing a plan that would reallocate the financial aid money spent at for-profit universities and private universities back to the public sector, Goldrick-Rab said.
“Its not right for the University of Phoenix to charge students $25,000 a year and pay for it all with financial aid that came from taxpayers,” she said. “So we take all that money and simply redistribute it in the public system, and it turns out we have more than enough money.”
According to Goldrick-Rab, students considered lower-class would no longer be favored for financial aid over middle-class students under the plan.
“We really were struck by the fact that a lot of people act like the only people who need financial aid are the really, really poor people,” Goldrick-Rab said. “And if you look at the data it’s actually pretty clear that even the middle class is having a hard time.”
Oh, wealth redistribution, of course.
UW-Madison professors propose making first two years of college free (The Daily Cardinal)
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I like this idea of the first two years of university free of charge, as long as the transfer of wealth goes from the profs to the students. The profs should refuse to be paid for the first two years of university for every incoming class. I hope all the ones in favor of this idiotic idea are teaching only freshmen and sophomores.
Logically, the profs pushing this inane idea would be required to teach freshman- and sophomore-level classes without remuneration. However, the reality is that if they’re tenured, they’re probably not teaching those classes anyhow – such classes tend to get farmed out to adjuncts and TAs, who would (it is hoped) have a better grasp on life in the real world ~