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Business, Economics & Tax Policy 7: Workers of the world unite!

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It was a bit over $6K when I graduated from Clarkson in 1977. Now CCT runs a bit over $60K! I'm told aid brings it down to around $30K. That's still a lot of money if you haven't saved.
 
Don't disagree.

Caveat - I'm guessing the quality of education is higher and education more complex (i.e., security) than it was in '95. I don't have the list of inputs and outputs to substantiate any of that...but it wouldn't surprise me if accounting for those would close the gap a fair amount.
I highly doubt it got 600% more complex or whatever the percent increase in cost is.
 
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I highly doubt it got 600% more complex or whatever the percent increase in cost is.

Its about 230% more unadjusted by cost of living.

But unless I missed on what SC was communicating, the adjusted tuition paid was about $11k vs. just over $18k. My point was that today's workplace requirements and teaching environments are far more complex than they were nearly 25 years ago which should account for some of the gap.
 
Its about 230% more unadjusted by cost of living.

But unless I missed on what SC was communicating, the adjusted tuition paid was about $11k vs. just over $18k. My point was that today's workplace requirements and teaching environments are far more complex than they were nearly 25 years ago which should account for some of the gap.

More complex? B.S.

At least half the additional cost is the arms race in things like dorms that are nicer than my house. Which is ironic when the first dorms chosen in every housing lottery are almost always the older, crappier ones that are in the better locations closer to the center of campus.
 
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More complex? B.S.

At least half the additional cost is the arms race in things like dorms that are nicer than my house. Which is ironic when the first dorms chosen in every housing lottery are almost always the older, crappier ones that are in the better locations closer to the center of campus.

SCSU has been renovating its older dorms, closing them for a school year while the interiors are redesigned. They've also torn down one dorm entirely from my time there, and closed its twin dorm with intent of also tearing it down. And yet a third dorm, designed as "apartment living," where I spent a year, has also been closed. They intended to build new dorms, but with declining enrollment, they now just have some vacant buildings on campus.


Also, and this can't be stressed enough, it's SCSU. Only the most naïve would ever think it's a great school. While you can get a good education in some fields, that list of fields hasn't changed much and people still know SCSU for what it is - the place where two of my roommates thought that Washington, DC, was located in the state of Washington.
 
Its about 230% more unadjusted by cost of living.

But unless I missed on what SC was communicating, the adjusted tuition paid was about $11k vs. just over $18k. My point was that today's workplace requirements and teaching environments are far more complex than they were nearly 25 years ago which should account for some of the gap.

Only gender studies have become more complex

English lit still makes one read Faulkner :)
 
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Only gender studies have become more complex

English lit still makes one read Faulkner :)

Dr. Mrs taught Gender Studies and Gender and the Law. It was, and I say this with exactly the same reservations you would have, great stuff.
 
Dr. Mrs taught Gender Studies and Gender and the Law. It was, and I say this with exactly the same reservations you would have, great stuff.

Mookie is in Bangkok right now and hangs with and talks to all these women on the street. They are incredible. The effort they put through for their families (generations of families) is impressive. Mookie has more women friends than male friends because he likes to hang with people who inspire him. 8/10 times that is a woman.
 
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Mookie is in Bangkok right now and hangs with and talks to all these women on the street. They are incredible. The effort they put through for their families (generations of families) is impressive. Mookie has more women friends than male friends because he likes to hang with people who inspire him. 8/10 times that is a woman.

That's very cool. Are you fluent in Thai?
 
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Also, and this can't be stressed enough, it's SCSU. Only the most naïve would ever think it's a great school. While you can get a good education in some fields, that list of fields hasn't changed much and people still know SCSU for what it is - the place where two of my roommates thought that Washington, DC, was located in the state of Washington.

I worked with an NDSU grad and we had to go to New Orleans for work. I wrote a note asking them to book tickets to "New Orleans, LA" for us. They booked flights to ... LAX ... but nowhere in Louisiana. They thought New Orleans was like Compton or Hollywood I guess.
 
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Funny thing you guys have mookie realizing

If you speak English you can converse with almost any woman

Good luck trying that with a man!! :)
 
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Mookie is in Bangkok right now ...

Oriental setting, and the city don't know that the city is getting: The creme de la creme of the chess world in a show with everything but Yul Brynner.

EDIT: In mookie's case I should've gone with ...

... and the world's your oyster. The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free. You'll find a god in every golden cloister and if you're lucky then the god's a she; I can feel an angel sliding up to me.
 
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