Stanford Eliminates Tuition for Lower-Income Families

[Brad Hutchison]

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=83681

This is a bold move and an interesting precedent. I wonder if any other universities will follow suit?

[ryan costa]

most families have income below 60 thousand dollars. Stanford will have to raise its admissions standards.

If my memory serves me correctly, Oberlin College offered free tuition to graduates of the Oberlin public school system who met certain academic achievement standards.

I myself graduated from the Sheffield/Sheffield Lake School District with a nearly full scholarship to Lorain County Community College.

[Mike Deneen]

This is part of a broader trend. Last month Northwestern announced that it is replacing student loans with grants for its neediest students.

[Brad Hutchison]

Ryan, no offense, but doesn't everyone in Lo Co get a free ride to LCCC? (I went to North Ridgeville...) I agree, I thought the $100,000 cut off seemed awfully high.

Mike, that's nice to see. I heard a story the other day that there is increasing pressure on universities - especially those with large endowments - to do such things.

[ryan costa]

Ryan, no offense, but doesn't everyone in Lo Co get a free ride to LCCC? (I went to North Ridgeville...) I agree, I thought the $100,000 cut off seemed awfully high.

Mike, that's nice to see. I heard a story the other day that there is increasing pressure on universities - especially those with large endowments - to do such things.

I was also accepted at Shawnee State University

They say higher education is pretty much free in large sections of Europe.
In most of Europe they begin segregating students by ability and performance pretty early. There are a lot of pre-requisite or program requisites to get into different higher education and higher vocational programs. But there isn't the massive socio-economic segregation there: plus they don't subsidize the hell out of sprawl like we do. In America Adolf Hitler could probably have just become an Architect or a Robert Moses or Texas Oil Billionaire: but he didn't have the pre-requisites to get into architecture school in Europe.

Unfortunately since high school ends at 16 in most of Europe, the dudes there are done playing sports before they get big enough to play really cool sports like football and baseball at a serious level.

The cost of higher education has grown compared to median annual wages a lot in the last 50 years. you would think that would mean more people went to college in the past.

It doesn't take much more than a 9th grade education level to manage a fast food restaurant or branch of a chain of smaller sized retail stores. That and on the job training and talent and maybe a few courses.

It takes a lot more education to work in administration and management of higher education than it used to. Everyone has a lot more training and credentials than before. The only optimistic conclusion to draw from this is that it is their aggregate goal that the cost of higher education has increased dramatically.