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Higher Ed and Current Events

1/25/2018

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This winter, are you warming up your homeschool with Hot Chocolate and Current Events? It's our weekly initiative to help increase your family’s civic knowledge and thinking skills. 

The high cost of college is a perennial topic of the news. Despite rising costs, some colleges are installing things like lazy rivers to attract students.  

Read the following article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/opinion/trustees-tuition-lazy-rivers.html

Consider the following questions:
  • What do colleges have to have in order to ensure students a high-quality learning experience? 
  • What amenities (desirable features) do you think are necessary to have to good college experience? 
  • Do colleges need amenities like lazy rivers? What benefits would these provide to the students? 
  • If you were a college president, would you talk your board of trustees into installing something like a lazy river?  
  • Who should pay for college amenities like lazy rivers? 
  • Most colleges are governed by a board of trustees, who have the final say on how colleges spend their money. Who should have a say on how colleges spend their money: students, professors, trustees, politicians, or someone else?
  • How can colleges lower their expenses and, consequently, their tuition? 

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