Originally Posted By: JOD
Originally Posted By: Al
See the connection?
No, I don't--because you're giving very incomplete information.
The budget has gone up 65% since when?
8 years..same time period.
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If the budget has increased 65% in 8 or 10 years, then I'd agree that their spending is completely out of control.
Well at least we can agree there. But if you check out the campus, you will see the new opulence.
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I'd also suggest that this is incredibly unusual, if it's the case. Do you have a source for this information?
I pieced it together. I'm to lazy to re-look it back up. If y ou choose not to believe it. I understand.
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How has the University's cost per student increased since you went there? Not the tuition rates, but the actual expenditures per full-time student.
Since I graduated in '69..I have no clue. But again...looking at the opulence..I would say a lot of the cost is unnecessary.
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I realize this isn't necessarily easy information to get, since PSU has long clung to secrecy with its "state related" status,
Well I am sure its obtainable. But I have already complained to my State Senator and Congressman. And quite frankly they don't care. I could spend a career getting facts and figures together and the results would be the same.
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but this is the information you really need to know to understand the increases in tuition. My guess is that adjusted for inflation, it's less now than when you attended.
I paid around 1000/year...its now 15,000. Thats 1500% when inflation since then was 617%
http://inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Calculators/Inflation_Calculator.asp
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-n...-201112-808288/
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Depending on when you went to PSU, your education was funded in large part by the state.
I would ask you to prove this statement
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I provided a real-world example earlier in this thread (from a university which makes all of its budget data public) of how tuition increased, dramatically, yet the cost per student actually stayed the same, or decreased over 30 years.
Look at University of Pa, Albright College, Any number of colleges in the Pa. area and I remember approximately how much they were in 1969 (I went to Albright)
Their tuitions are up about 2000% at least. I think your case is an exception. Albright college tuition when I went there was $ 750/ year (a bit higher than average-1964). Today its $33,190
or over 4000%
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The data say otherwise, al facts.
We'll just have to disagree