"The 40 percent of Kentucky families who earn the least must use 39 percent of their income to attend a 4-year college, up from 33 percent in 2004, the report found. And that's after accounting for financial aid, which is increasingly being used to lure high-achieving students who boost a school's reputation, but who don't need help to go to college."
The 39% figure is highly misleading. It includes food and lodging expenses. Those would have to be incurred whether the student chooses to live on campus and overpay for necessities or not. The fact that poor families are choosing to pay luxury prices for necessary services is more indicative of the fact that federally-insured student loans are readily available than the inaccurate picture that poor families face living on 61% of their income in order to send a child to college.
Solutions are readily available. We already incentivize students to attend community colleges by allowing them to continue paying the lower tuition rates at universities when they transfer after earning a two-year degree. This is not well-publicized. It should be.
If more students stayed at home with their parents and took courses online through KYVC.org, they would save substantially as well.
The article's criticism that too much financial aid is being awarded to students "who don't need help to go to college" is off-base also. Raising academic standards in our public colleges is the only way to approach long-term success. Doling out too much financial aid strictly on the basis of financial need and then encouraging overspending for services is at the heart of this problem. Attempting to address college affordability without naming the actual culprits will continue to frustrate our efforts to improve the situation.
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Bottom line: College is overpriced and overblown. It is not what is cracked up to be and for the most part, is a waste of money, lots of money.
If taxpayers knew what their money was paying for, at places like UK for instance, many would see the light and choose another route.
Associate Professor of Sociology Joanna M. Badagliacco - $54,494/year to promote abortion among other pieces of leftist ideology. As director of UK's Discovery Seminar Program, she "involves students in research and ACTIVISM through internships and volunteer opportunities"!!!
Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies Ellen D. B. Riggle - $70,650.00/year to research the effects of minority stress on the well-being of Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender individuals and same-sex "couples". Research can be found here: www.prismresearch.org!
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Social Work Melanie Otis - $62,292.00 to examine the individual and community-level impact of "homophobia" (yes Virginia, they promote this lie), "heterosexism" (now there is name for the normalcy of man-woman sex as if it is a disease or something Virginia), racism, classism, ethnocentrism, and sexism in the lives of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender people.
Assistant Professor in Gender and Women's Studies Program and the Department of Anthropology Lucinda Ramberg - $57,500.00! ...has researched on the body as an artifact of culture and power in relation to questions of sexual subjectivity and citizenship. Teaches "Introduction to Queer Studies; Queer Theory and Kinship Studies. No I didn't make this up! Her current book is an "ethnography of sacred prostitution and its reform" and is titled "Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis, Ethics, Kinship".
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies Robert S. Tannenbaum, complete with his Darwin style beard, $107,636.00 - is a member of the board of directors of the KY Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, AKA the Anti-Christ Liberals Union!
SICK!
You may not realize this, or you may and just simply don't care because the facts don't agree with your agenda, but these are not the only classes the folks you named actually teach and research. For example, Dr. Riggle is a very good professor of political science with emphasis on the judicial process. I had her while at UK and did not find a left-wing agenda that she promoted.
"Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies Robert S. Tannenbaum, complete with his Darwin style beard, $107,636.00 - is a member of the board of directors of the KY Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, AKA the Anti-Christ Liberals Union!"
Something tells me that the taxpayers are not paying him to be a member of the ACLU. He is probably doing that on his own time. Thanks for being misleading.
"Assistant Professor in Gender and Women's Studies Program and the Department of Anthropology Lucinda Ramberg - $57,500.00! ...has researched on the body as an artifact of culture and power in relation to questions of sexual subjectivity and citizenship. Teaches "Introduction to Queer Studies; Queer Theory and Kinship Studies. No I didn't make this up! Her current book is an "ethnography of sacred prostitution and its reform" and is titled "Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis, Ethics, Kinship".
I'd read the research before you reach conclusions, oh wait...never mind. This is you we are talking about....
Would you recognize a left-wing agenda if you saw it 2:04? I very seriously doubt it.
2:04 said: "Something tells me that the taxpayers are not paying him to be a member of the ACLU. He is probably doing that on his own time. Thanks for being misleading."
Nothing misleading there at all 2:04, unless you have trouble understanding what you read. I wasn't going here, but... this guy's whole life is supported by gubbament cheese and he has the financial security and time to invest in something like the ACLU because of the cheese he eats, and I pay for. I bet the has never held a real job in his life.
The agenda of the Anti-Christ Liberal's Union is anti-Christ, anti-Liberty, and anti-American, period. To have anyone associated with that crackpot radical leftwing communist organization of atheists, humanists, homosexuals, and other misfits in our taxpayer supported institutions of higher indoctrination we call colleges and universities is just plain wrong.
2:04 says, "I'd read the research before you reach conclusions, oh wait...never mind. This is you we are talking about...."
You don't get it do you 2:04. Colleges and Universities used to be about teaching knowledge. Now they are about indoctrination in the mental disorder of liberalism and it's associated darwinism, humanism, homosexualism (sodomy), multi-culturalism, atheism, and all the other isms that are lies and anathema to our Christian heritage and founding, not to mention the basis for our destruction as we approach becoming the New Sodom.
There is absolutely no justifiable reason to be promoting abortion, homosexuality, studying queers, indoctrinating young jello minded kids in liberal activism, and teaching all the anti-American perversions of history today's textbooks promote. None!
The root of the evil that is destroying our society can be found in the public schools, colleges, and universities. These people I pointed out are merely some of the instruments of that evil.
That you cannot see that is not surprising and you are definitely part of the majority, that much we know.
Read "None Dare Call It Treason 25 Years Later" by John A. Stormer. Read "Cloning of the American Mind Eradicating Morality Through Education" by B. K. Eakman, Ph.D. Read "Freedom at the Altar" by McManus.
The indoctrination that has occurred over the past 9 or 10 decades has slowly but surely "evolved" to the point that there are now at least three generations of people that are, for the most part, lost, have no idea what is hapening, how we got here, and where here is.
"The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?"
--Thomas Sowell
"Among the elementary measures the American Soviet government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are...[a] National Department of Education...the studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic, and other features of the bourgeois ideology. The students will be taught the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and the general ethics of the new Socialist society."
--William Z. Foster, Toward Soviet America, 1932 National Chairman of the American Communist Party (1933-44, 1945-57)
“[State controlled] education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
– Joseph Stalin
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924)
Outstanding Free!
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