[Pen-l] RE: private vs. state colleges

[z l <wnsht1kll@xxxxxxxxx>]

As intruiging as battling the differences in entitlements and
resources for education as somehow autonomous from matter of race and
class endowments, why can't the financing of universal education and
universal health care be identical?

Here's an example: I once taught for the new experience, at a
proprietary (for profit) junior college, a former "ladies" business
school renamed as a college complete with dress code. I worked on a
time clock with a time-card for hourly wages for teaching and my
students were students who barely graduated from high school and
rather than go to a public community college for which they were
qualified, their families (parents) were seduced by the loans
available to offset their household budgets and the students could be
given the impression that they were joining a profession and their
parents could claim they had a kid in college.

There already exists universities that have a quasi-public financing
element ( they are in a separate category called state-supported
U.Pitt and Temple for example) among other combinations of titles when
they got "merged" into the public system (Indiana's IUPU). So my
question for your all would be whether there could be a single payer
system (or shudder --- the "s" word to socialize/nationalize
endowments) that would allow "national" merit to will out blindly and
allow (perhaps an allocation system less screwy than ETS/ACT) the most
intellectually qualified to go to the best schools regardless of
constraint (the 800 SAT-score East LA kid to go to Harvard and compel
the prep-school jag-off to go to Podunk JC). One person's
socialism/anarchism is another's libertarianism if the goal is to
achieve equity and excellence. Yes, I know the earlier PRC system of
national testing had/has issues including the hiring of "ringers", but
isn't the principle still sound?

Ann
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