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BLOGASSAULT on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 10:42:20 AM
Rocky Mountain News columnists
Vincent Carroll suggests that while Colorado tuition rates are climbing, those same colleges are spending time and money trying to be more green.
If higher ed has this much time and resources to invest in holding the line on greenhouse emissions, maybe it’s time for a similar effort concerning tuition. After all, “even when adjusted for inflation, tuition and fees have risen 24 percent at four-year public universities, 11 percent at private four-year colleges, and 17 percent at public two-year institutions over the past five years . . . .” notes a recent report called Making Opportunity Affordable, funded by the Lumina Foundation for Education. “Meanwhile, the amount of money that colleges and universities spend to provide education to their students also is rising faster than consumer prices and health-care costs.” A better example of waste is what Universtiy of Colorado is spending on that lunatic Ward Churchill. On Churchill's web site, other obviously lunatic professors are defending him.
Just another example of how anything the government runs is broken. let them start managing some sort of environmental policy within their own grounds, and they will make a mess of that too and spend a ton of money doing it.