• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    As someone who went to a private university and always believed it a superior choice, fuck that noise. A few states have started offering free instate tuition again, at public universities.

    Let’s change course here, let’s steer this baby over to the public side……

    How about

    • all public funding goes to free tuition at public universities/vo-tech for everyone that wants it
    • if you insist on going to private, you can do private funding. No loans for you. No grants for you
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      4 months ago

      The bigger private unis already have endowments big enough to coast on indefinitely. Cornell has $9B for a student body of 25k. Harvard has a $51B trust fund for a student body of 30k. MIT has $24B across 12k students… When schools are this obscenely rich, tuition is a drop in the bucket.