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Originally Posted by Esoteric
I think a 45% increase in my fee's should not happen for the following semester. This increase should be applied over the course of several years, and not all at once. Hell, if they made it 2 years from now I'd be ok with it, as I already had budgets in place for the upcoming year and spent my money to go to Europe already.
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That's what has me enraged too. 46.5% in one year!? That's disgusting and atrocious. Honestly, every time I think of that number I want to gag. The administrators should be ashamed of themselves.
I finish this year, so I (luckily) don't have to deal with it. The people I feel the worst for are the first years that have committed themselves to this institution and are now faced with three long years of exorbitant prices. And who's to say that they won't go up again next year? The whole thing is so incredibly arbitrary.
There was a discussion on facebook that the other students go on to get involved in important societal roles that don't pay well such as rights movements, environmental causes, social services, etc. I think that's garbage - these organizations need business students, engineers and doctors just as much as they need Women's Studies majors. It's like in
How I Met Your Mother, when Marshall is eventually forced to work for the souless corporation with NPH because of the combined debt from Lilly's spending and law school. By raising tuition prices, we're forcing students into job streams that will pay off the debt as quickly as possible.
What about the students who want to go live with gorillas?
People say that business students are greedy and just in it for the money. In my experience this isn't true at all - there are some phenomenal people in the business faculty that really want to make a difference. With these tuition changes, what is really being done is destroying our hope for the future. The end-product from these hit faculties will be jaded, cynical, debt-laden students. And who can blame them? They're being taken advantage of to pay not only for their own education, but for everybody's!