1) Prof. Doug Weber argued recently (source) that almost all of the rise in college tuition costs is attributable to the defunding of universities by state governments. Do you agree that this is the main cause of rising tuition costs? Is is really plausible to think that we can bend the curve on college costs unless we make up this shortfall?
2) My experience teaching at university has left me really concerned that the defense of rising tuition costs as an investment in human capital changes the relationship of students to university. As Sefan Collini has argued in the London Reviw of Books on numerous occasions (source), in the British context it changes university to a commodity that students purchase that should reflect their (present) interests and desires, rather than a precious opportunity to expand their horizons. Do you expect that your proposed changes will do anything to alter this new dynamic between students and education?
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1) Prof. Doug Weber argued recently (source) that almost all of the rise in college tuition costs is attributable to the defunding of universities by state governments. Do you agree that this is the main cause of rising tuition costs? Is is really plausible to think that we can bend the curve on college costs unless we make up this shortfall?
2) My experience teaching at university has left me really concerned that the defense of rising tuition costs as an investment in human capital changes the relationship of students to university. As Sefan Collini has argued in the London Reviw of Books on numerous occasions (source), in the British context it changes university to a commodity that students purchase that should reflect their (present) interests and desires, rather than a precious opportunity to expand their horizons. Do you expect that your proposed changes will do anything to alter this new dynamic between students and education?
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