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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (242079)1/14/2014 12:27:56 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 541598
 
The point of the article was that the tuition costs were raised for one economic group and not another by College Administrators at public universities without public debate about the fairness of this. In other words, they decided to unlevel the playing field unilaterally.

You've, in my view, accurately stated the point of the article. I'm arguing the article is not only wrong, it's malicious public policy.

To restate my point, tuition monies go into the general operating budget; they are not "set aside" for this or that. If some state legislator successfully mandates such bookkeeping, then it happens but it's fictional, reflects us-against-them bigotry, and should not be permitted. Public universities should have very broad leeway to determine how to allocate their budgets. Letting legislators get into telling universities where to spend the money allocated is very, very dangerous waters. It's the kind of waters that ruins great state universities.
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