Re: [Pen-l] The tyranny of college rankings: the case of Clemson U

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

Limiting to only those who can pay won't work for universities.  They  
need to fill the seats -- because of the cost structure heavy with  
overhead costs.  So they raise tuition to extract the maximum from  
those who can pay it, then discount some seats (calling it student  
aid) to raise at least some revenue from those who can pay something.

They -- as did the airlines -- have now pushed it too far, and have  
encountered resistance from even the wealthier students.  (The  
airlines kept raising business fares and discounting leisure tickets.   
But the business flyers moved over to Southwest and video  
conferencing.  The golden goose went down like the flight doomed by  
cost cutting recently near Buffalo.)

Gene Coyle

On Jun 4, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Bill Lear wrote:

> On Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 11:42:06 (-0700) raghu writes:
> > A little while back, I posed a question on PEN-L about the reasons  
> > for
> > the recent inflation in costs of higher education. Many people
> > knowledgeable in the ways of the academy pointed to administrative
> > costs and the trend towards "corporatization" as one of the main
> > contributors. ...
>
> What about simply wishing to limit access only to those with the
> ability to pay --- good old-fashioned class warfare from above?
>
>
> Bill
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