Perry to Call for Upfront Price Tags at Universities
Updated, 3:20 pm.: Gov. Rick Perry laid out his higher education initiatives at a press conference in Dallas today. As expected, he emphasized his desire to see universities keep tuition at a set price for a student's first four years of college, as well as calling for institutions to tell students how much their degrees will cost if they graduate in four, five or six years.
"Implementing these measures will meet the growing demand for higher education in a way that provides encouragement for students to complete their degree in a timely fashion and with financial certainty," Perry ...
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STOPTHE MAGNET
But no citizenship requirements? Gov. Perry do us a favor and get your crony capitalist friends to open a TRADE SCHOOL in every county in TEXAS.Its too costly and damaging to tell every anchorbaby student that there is no future without college. Students that cannot demonstrate academic promise should be guided into the trades as an option.Bring SHOP CLASSES back into the high schools.
Lee Dunkelberg via Texas Tribune on Facebook
So, this is the higher education fairy godmother waves her wand and it all comes out equal business model?
Leon Drozd
Excellent first step, Mr. Governor. Disclosure is a good wake-up call.
Now, how about leading your fellow Texans and those who legislate to provide more consistent and informed funding of higher education in Texas and stop pushing the cost of mismanagement onto the backs of the private sector and families. Your public university leaders should be educating and developing people along with managing public funds entrusted to their stewardship.
Those who want private higher education have plenty of private education schools available to them. The state of Texas has a vested interest in educating its young people and this includes those who are citizens as well as those who are not. Alumni associations can work with those students/graduates to give back.
Mr. Governor, you have an opportunity to re-set higher education before you move on to your next venture. These peope represent the future and you don't need an "oops" moment with these folks. This could be your richest legacy. This is more important than the presidency of the United States --- in my humble opinion.
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Rudy Gonzales
This is a call to arm's to oust career politicians this cycle! If this is all Perry can come up with while he's recouperating for his next run, quickly evict him from office! having crashed and burned in the primaries, this streaking Texas turkey tanked horribly leaving a bad stench and Texans laughing out loud! Vote Medina!
Adele Roberson
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Samdavis
The words "Perry" and "higher education" just don't look right in the same sentence.
Tom Walker
Higher education tuition costs are out of control and are rapidly becoming unaffordable. I applaud any effort to control the costs. I don't know the right answers, yet, but I am glad the issue is being studied and addressed.
JC DemocratofTejas
Ah just go back to decorating the Governor's mansion...which by the way, is NO NEWS. Nada, zippo. Why is that. You there are or aren't ya. Downtown or Westlake Hills!??
Leon Drozd
These comments give me pause for some unsophisticated tongue-in-cheek wonderment. An uneducated population whose brains are programmed with limited or specific knowledge and which are develoiped for limited or specific thinking capacity will wind up serving their masters and not themselves. Give them TV's for creating reality and fantasy in their lives. Give them the trappings of "middle class" and burden them with credit (and lots of it). Lull them into a hierarchy where only those who are at the top of the pyramid or organization chart can have authority over them. Engage them in group-think, sports rivalries and branded politics. Make them fearful and beholden to their masters. Make them fearful of being the odd man or woman out --- the one who might be "free" or "liberated" and, most defintely, demonize those who are "liberal." Make them dependent on mass-produced and mass-marketed food and products. Make them dependent on pre-packaged knowledge and education. Package it like frozen food at the grocery store that can be popped in the microwave. Place them all in a social and economic class so that only a certain elite can select who is obedient and worthy of serving a more sophisticated master or of having a higher security clearance. Control their access to medical care so that they are in constant fear for their their very existence and are beholden to economic and insurance company masters for medical access and treatment. Deny a woman the "right to choose" so that unwanted children who become misfits can be used to serve the military and prison camps. Before you know it, they will be beautifully communized into camps where they can serve their masters --- like horses in traces plowing the fields --- and they won't think they are communized since the masters they see are not government. Is there a liberator? Who will liberate Americans? A liberated America? That's a scary thought.