tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162206974728931335.post7674844194980058082..comments2024-03-28T08:20:11.686-05:00Comments on Daughter Number Three: College Costs, Then and NowDaughter Number Threehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08171356533232458827noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162206974728931335.post-19425126502750742362013-08-26T21:46:01.187-05:002013-08-26T21:46:01.187-05:00I’m not sure how it reflects on my family situatio...I’m not sure how it reflects on my family situation, but it never even occurred to anyone to think in terms of borrowing money when I went to college. I had a modest scholarship from a local organization, a much larger one from my college, and I worked in the summers and part-time in the school year (very part: twenty hours or so a week, eight or twelve during exams). My children graduated debt-free, because we saved like crazy. My son’s work as an RA for two years saved us a bundle too.<br /><br />On-campus amenities are one reason for the rising cost of college. Another is the massive increase in administrative positions — layer upon layer of assistant and associate positions. There’s a terrible irony in all of it: as teaching salaries decline (with the increased use of contingent faculty, adjuncts), the cost of college goes up.Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162206974728931335.post-8801237115355116772013-08-26T14:12:31.954-05:002013-08-26T14:12:31.954-05:00At my alma mater, Dickinson College in Carlisle, P...At my alma mater, Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, the cost has risen above $40K a year, something that would probably make my father spin in his grave. He thought it was expensive in the mid-70's. My four years cost half of what one year now costs. I cannot imagine going to college now with how expensive it is. I doubt my father would agree to pay for it (if he were alive). I struggle with this increase: why is it so expensive? How are they justifying tuition increases? At the UofM the reasoning usually involves losing state funding. Dickinson is a private liberal arts college. I don't think it's fair to anyone to charge so much money, and as a result have students over their heads in debt by the time they graduate.Ginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14661278900773185119noreply@blogger.com