Every now and then this Institution of Higher Education gets these wild ideas that I just can't deal with. Sorry, but I vehemently disagree with the idea of charging higher tuition for credit hours in science, technology, engineering and mathematics majors. That's part of "the vision" of a possible "autonomy" for UF.
Note the majors listed just happen to be those which Florida Governor Rick Scott is trying to push students into because he thinks the degrees in those areas are more valuable in society.
What message does this send? Students in certain programs are better than the others? But at the same time charging those "special" students more? Seriously?
To a STEM student: "Oh I'm sorry but we have to charge you 1/3 more in tuition than everyone else because it costs us more to educate you because you're in a special field, one that is underrepresented and we pushed you into because it's the only way you will find a job that society deems worthy."
To a non-STEM student: "See, it's like this, you're a History major and basically you have no possible shot at getting a real job when you graduate so we're going to charge you the same as always so you will get the hell out of here and make more room for more no-life, no-job-prospect liberal arts majors. Face it, you're not as valuable to us but don't worry cause we're sticking it to the STEM students too by pushing them into those majors and charging them more.
Just hope President Obama follows through on his college reform agenda in his 2nd term. Its absolutely insane to hear about the student debt that is being loaded on today's students. I wonder if Obama said these loans could be discharged via bankruptcy just how many schools would check their costs if they know students could bail out of these debts.
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