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If this change goes into effect, I'm not sure a real problem will occur. The reason is that many students will not be able to afford this change. Thus, universi
by Upvoter33 9y ago
If this change goes into effect, I'm not sure a real problem will occur. The reason is that many students will not be able to afford this change. Thus, universities will have to drop the tuition for such students altogether (instead of charging NSF or other funding agencies for it). Schools will then (eventually) respond by raising "overhead" on grants to make up for the shortfall. The net effect, thus, may be zero.
- glauque 9y agoFinally someone is pointing at the elephant in the room. When I look at my student billing account, I see $60,000 waived under my grad "tuition waiver" every year. Should I feel thankful, or completely dumbfounded by the fact that they'd consider charging me that much to be a grad student in the first place?
- moab 9y agoBy taxing or putting extra burden on all but the students that absolutely can't afford to pay tuition or elevated taxes you're making an already sketchy financial proposition even sketchier. There were a few articles recently lamenting the declining numbers of American grad students. Measures like these are only going to cripple these numbers further.
- allenz 9y agoI don't think that school's will "just" be able to raise the overhead on grants. Congress has no plans to increase grant funding. Instead, grants will become more competitive. The net effect, then, is (1) unnecessarily increased competition for grad school, (2) defunding of education and research, and (3) decreased global competitiveness. I think it's a real problem.