“You could say I’ve already given you ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS”
We want a gift! But only if that gift is money!
Reference for those who don’t get it: https://youtu.be/aiqKK4ysI7g?si=vacQZ6VZIlvmnIOT
It’s a great bit.
“What kind of coke head relative!”
Oh the irony
Unfortunately nobody wants to go a giant single structure college ala Highschool+, aka Community College. They want all the extra stuff.
I did as close to that as I could, going to community then transferring to a 4 year. The problem is deeper than people wanting extra stuff, part of the problem is that nobody respects community college degrees, and they’re usually 2 year programs.
Definitely. I started out at a private 4 year, then transferred to the community college back home. I always heard the school had a shaky reputation, but my experience here has been a thousand times better than the private university. (Not to say it’s for everyone, but it’s absolutely a better fit for me). But if I do decide to go for a BA, it’ll have to be at another school, cause they don’t offer any here.
Yeah, it was more or less the same experience for me. My community college was the same quality teaching (and in some aspects it was better). Which just makes it infuriating that 4 year community college programs aren’t really an option.
Since you know the person on the phone is doing work study, you tell them that you won’t donate a dollar until your salary clears their tuition costs.
They stopped calling me!
“Oh shit, you didn’t spend all of the $90,000.00 I literally just gave you, did you?!”
I am never going to financially recover from this.
Why colleges ask for donations? I am not American.
Greed
Well no, its for scholarships in the US
Scholarships that only exist in the first place because we have privatized higher education, which is privatized because of greed.
Or because its better. Just a thought
I’ve got about $25,000 reasons why it is not in fact better.
That’s it? That was less than one semester for mine
It may not be much in comparison to others, but that doesn’t make absolve me of my debt. Practically every other developed nation has this figured out, it’s long past time we caught up.
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Because they like having money? Running a university is legitimately very expensive and there’s always more to do. I think it’s more common with people who went to business school or became pro athletes, etc. They end up with very profitable careers and a fond recollection of their time in college. It’s worth it to the university to ask almost everyone just in case, because sometimes they find that one whale alum.
Running a
universityNCAA athletics program is legitimately very expensiveFTFY
Athletics is actually petty profitable, since athletes can’t be paid, so the school gets all the money for sponsorships, tickets, merch, etc.
It can actually be a problem for the schools, since athletics isn’t allowed to be profitable. They have to spend all the money athletics brings in on athletics, which is why the athletics department ends up with all the fancy new buildings.
since athletes can’t be paid,
Remind me again, what is it called when the people generating the wealth are not compensated?
It can actually be a problem for the schools, since athletics isn’t allowed to be profitable. They have to spend all the money athletics brings in on athletics, which is why the athletics department ends up with all the fancy new buildings.
Ah yes, that sounds like a great benefit for students getting an education. Also for the academic staff. Must be great to work at a university as a lecturer and know the football coach earns multiples of your salary.
Honestly I think South Park’s bit on Student Athletes perfectly explains it
What’s the point of having an athletic program if you’re not using it to subsidize programs that actually matter?
It kinda does do that, just indirectly. Even if the university can’t profit directly off of athletics, a successful sports season increases application rates and donations. Basically it boosts the brand recognition and brand identity of the school.
It’s still painful to me that the class size at my engineering school basically doubled the year after the university won some basketball championship. I don’t want to believe that people, and especially engineers, are that influence-able but the numbers don’t lie
So they can up their investment income from $1B to $1.0001B
I looked up the University of Cincinnati’s finances once because I never realized they were public. I think UC owns non-liquid non-realestate assets somewhere in the 30billion range. They still ask for donations, despite the fact they could give free education to every student for multiple years.
It’s nuts how wealthy some of those universities are. Several could easily provide free education and still turn a profit
I wonder if they use tuition fees mostly for rationing aceess
For scholarships
But you have freedom (“free” as in “free to pay”)!
The joy of every college offering every degree and sport with tons of different offices which don’t really teach you anything lol.
There’s a reason they go through white collar fat like mad the moment enrollment goes down. Which has been down for like 5 years now.
Also most of those donations subsidize tuition for every campus I’ve ever visited.
And while they are looking for everyone’s money, it’s usually very well off whales that pitch in the vast majority of fundraising $s.
The joys of trying to keep the lights running on 100+ year old structures.
My college used to call me monthly and I kept telling them I was unemployed, for a year straight. They haven’t called in ten years now 🤷♂️
My college call me for offer PHD or some crap course (Yes, i am from Brazil and graduated in a underground institution)
This made me laugh more than it should
I remember freshmen calling me to ask for donations before I had even landed a job.
