I'm on a roll. What do you do to slow the rise of college tuition? Which has been way higher than the general inflation rate for decades.
1. Fire the useless mouths. The only people who should be on salary are real professors, who teach three full credit (meets three times a week) courses per semester.. Administrators should be fired on general principles. Administrators do not contribute to the student education, they just steal student's tuition money.
2. Fire the janitors, the dishwashers, and the groundskeepers. Let the students mow the grass, sweep the halls, do the dishes, and shovel the snow. Tell the students if they don't like doing the chores, find another college.
3. Coaches should not be paid more than professors.
4. Insist on Saturday classes. That way you can schedule Mon-Wed-Fri classes AND Tues-Thurs-Sat classes and fit more classes into the same classroom space.
5. Stop constructing frills. Fancy student unions, gyms, pools, theaters, dorms, anything not used for instruction. Students can rough it, or private enterprise will step forward and fill the gap.
6. Drop the worthless courses and majors. Gender studies, racial studies, film criticism, art history, journalism, theatre, sociology, political science, anything that does not lead to gainful employment upon graduation. It's fraud to take a student's money are not equip him to earn a living.
7. Drop graduate education. The masters and doctorate and post doctoral programs lead only to jobs as college faculty, and there are virtually no job openings for college faculty. Students going for graduate degrees are getting fleeced by the college.
8. Be fair to athletes. Make sure that they graduate, in four years, with a useable degree. If they cannot do the work, they cannot play.
I hear UNH is warming up to cry for more taxpayer money this year.
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