Comments on: Common Sense On Higher Ed

By: Rob W.

Rob W. — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:41:50 +0000

Georgia has an excellent system to keep their costs in check. Their lottery scholarship, HOPE, simply pays the tuition for an in-state school instead of giving you a lump sum scholarship. This means that the people who decide on the tuition hikes (the Board of Regents, I think) are really increasing tuition on their own lottery fund instead of the costs being directly passed on to the eligible students.

By: baked

baked — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:57:29 +0000

it cost?

By: Toyota Kawaski

Toyota Kawaski — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:22:28 +0000

It cost for higher education if not you end up like MANdee working for this site.

By: utah

utah — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:24:12 +0000

those two girls in the middle have big knockers.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:37:23 +0000

It ain’t about the higher ed. It ain’t about the children. It is about the Benjaminâ€™s.

These places are princedoms (except at the majors where they are kingdoms) and the riches are beyond the imagination of the average working South Carolinian.

We are a poor state and with the money we are spending we should be elevating out populace, not enriching educated interlopers as the pick our tax pockets in the name of academia.

Stay on them Will. Real power is exercised in the birth of movements, and your spotlight on higher ed has the potential to make a real difference in this state.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:06:38 +0000

Higher education in this state is a political afterthought. We also seem to think that the Lottery has solved all the financing problems. We have a “Commission” that refuses to share data or publish research — so the public and officials are left without any actual knowledge. Guess that’s the way some people like it. Those of us who want change are left beating our heads against walls, and not those of the institutions, but of the politics as usual environment in Columbia. I can’t even get an agency to print a guide designed to help the situation — for anyone interested.

By: Earl Capps

Earl Capps — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:53:45 +0000

The Blogland ain’t surprised. This is what happens when your education system policy-making is driven by turf and career-making decisions, instead of being “customer focused”.

As part of our ongoing efforts to “sell out to the education establishment”, we’ve repeatly pointed out the problems caused by a lack of strong central governance of our higher education efforts, as well as the USC two-year campus system which needlessly competes with our state’s robust technical college system.

If anyone doubts the parking lot sharing, just go to the USC Sumter/CCTC complex. Either side of the parking lot, there’s an Associate’s Degree waiting for you … and on both sides, a pack of career educrats who love their turf and their jobs.