Erica Williams: 23% of College Freshmen drop out because of the cost of College

Campus Progress Deputy Director Erica Williams on the position of young progressives in America.

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[FantomShadowz]

this country is controlled by bankers and will die by bankers

[TheFlanker35]

You've got it backwards lady. Government caused college to cost so much in the first place. Get rid of all laws pertaining to accreditation, and you can get rid of all high college costs.

[cmella626]

preach going to school and I am scared I will not be able to find a job

[StellaEllaMaya]

@cosg9531 Not the planet, but it'll fuck us up. The earth doesn't care about global warming, but it doesn't care about humanity either. We're not trying to get rid of global warming to "save the planet", we're doing it to save ourselves. Still a worthy goal, imo.

[yellowcardblows]

Banks are terrible, monstrous institutions that are also necessary. The affluence of the United States that allows such a large percentage of the population to attend college is attributable to its vibrant capitalist sector. Before large banks and the rise of the middle class, college was almost exclusively a luxury of the wealthy. I like Steinbeck's description of the banks as monsters. We cannot eliminate banks and expect the government to be able to provide the same amount of money reliably.

[cosg9531]

Global warming, like global cooling, is naturally cyclical. There is nothing that we can do which will genuinely adversely affect the planet, including nuclear obliteration. If we destroyed ourselves, the planet would simply carry on without our presence, and all trace of our existence would eventually disappear. The planet will be here long after we're gone.

[TheFlanker35]

@BestKEpt578,

Government has often driven the cost of education up, albeit inadvertently. It usually relates to raising "fees" in place of tuition. Fees make up more of the college cost than tuition now.

[TheFlanker35]

@BestKEpt578,

Not quite, but institutions such as Excelsior and Edison State are great and really just as good as most traditional 4-year institutions. These places allow for massive credit by examination testing. It was an agonizing task to get these two schools accredited, but when they did, they created a low cost alternative to traditional education for a lot of fields. We need about 50 more of these schools.

[BestKEpt578]

@TheFlanker35 That's not exactly how it works

[Arperture2008]

@Arperture2008 "The Third World War" is the name of the game. It is a real time strategy game (RTS) designed by Extreme, where you play against the computer as a nation of your choice in the present day or in the future. The game was similar to a computer game version of Risk. Each nation had its own strengths and you were given a limited number of terms to develop your nation. The object of the game was to defeat the computer without starting world war three.

[Arperture2008]

Sega Genesis had a video game that was for Presidents. It was a simulator for how to run a government. And to me it was pretty life like. Everything you did had a consequence. You could wage wars or trade with other countries. I can't remember the exact name for it. And I do believe it was on SEGA CD or just the regular genesis. I think the game was called World Domination or something like that. But it did teach you that if you put tons of money into education you get incredible results.

[Arperture2008]

@K3Nshady How is that even remotely possible?