Quote Originally Posted by GGT View Post
That's not funny.

I've read that university professorial pay is at an all time high, especially for administrators. And that tuition will nearly double in almost every state, at a time when federal funds are questionable. A few student groups are protesting going into debt just to go to college, but not making much headway. America doesn't value higher education, obviously. Go go USA #1!

Expensive tuition isn't necessarily a bad thing, though it has been getting fairly expensive even for already expensive universities. It's a relatively free "market" (so far, compared to Europe, for instance, where tuition is made artificially much lower than the real costs) and the US exports university education by the truckloads, even with our relatively expensive tuition.

Also: wouldn't America's willingness to pay often outrageous tuition prices actually show that we do value education? Or, perhaps the now rich foreigners (even the Chinese) are pricing "native" Americans out of the market? (but really, there is no shortage of professors and from what I have seen, professor (not administrator) salaries remain low and the jobs are scarce.

Expensive tuition and low professor salaries? It's a lot of contradictions. Perhaps evidence of another place where the market isn't as free as we might think. (a free market doesn't have crazy contradictions like this)