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If you still wonder why college gets more expensive
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If you still wonder why college gets more expensive


Aug 25, 2015, 1:56 PM

Here is just another reason.

http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/clements-appoints-clemson-university-diversity-advisory-council/

Cost to educate doesn't change much. Cost to administrate keeps skyrocketing.

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Re: If you still wonder why college gets more expensive


Aug 25, 2015, 2:04 PM

Half of the people listed are in volunteer positions, several others obtain funding from sources outside Clemson, others are professors, and I believe the remainder serve on the president's cabinet.

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It's the magnitude of the effort along with having


Aug 25, 2015, 2:46 PM

people directly on the payroll that matters. My wife was on a similar committee or council for a local college as a volunteer. Their focus wasn't as controversial or as current but they still managed to take up a lot of time. Between the full time staff that was engaged with their meetings randomly and all of the follow ups, presentations, brainstorming sessions, etc., it was a serious boondoggle for university employees. A big part of their time - after she quit what my wife referred to as wasted time - was spend meeting with a crap load of different academic advisory groups. In her view they were simply screening all the committee's activities and not really contributing. Call it "filtering" to make sure the committee wasn't getting too far off track. These academics were tattlers to the college officer in charge of the effort.

So my point is that it has little to do with the direct cost of this council and more to do with the total burden on Clemson salaried employees starting with the official "officer" role.

Multiply this effort times 20 or more for the wide range of committees and councils that meet and review and think and propose and blah blah blah and the dollars add up fast.

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That's a drop in the bucket


Aug 25, 2015, 2:08 PM

While that stuff does get bloated, the reason tuition goes up is because SC funds less than 10% of their universities' operating costs. That number was about 5 times higher a decade or two ago. Most states are between 10-20%. Homeland security and getting ipads for 1st graders has put a couple generations in debt.

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By the titles of the representatives on that council I think


Aug 25, 2015, 2:49 PM

I see all people represented except the white male. Why does "diversity" always leave them out?

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State support of higher ed has fallen 35% per student since


Aug 25, 2015, 3:58 PM

2008 in SC.

That should be the subject of your ire. What you are talking about is meaningless.

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Numbers can be deceiving


Aug 25, 2015, 5:31 PM

You may be right that the legislature has specifically reduced the total portion of the state's revenue allocated to higher education. But when the costs escalate at rates multiples higher than personal income and revenue collection, I wonder how much of the 35% per pupil is tied to the value of money and comparative real costs.

But even if true, that makes any additional and unnecessary expenditures particularly atrocious. It's as if the school administration is giving the middle finger to students saying "pay up suckers". If your level of state support is dwindling as you claim, would you spend more or less?

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Re: State support of higher ed has fallen 35% per student since


Aug 25, 2015, 5:34 PM [ in reply to State support of higher ed has fallen 35% per student since ]

But the state also rewards students who have good grades with Hope/Life and Palmetto Fellows scholarships.

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At what point does this start to get out of hand?***


Aug 27, 2015, 8:04 AM



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There's something in these hills.


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