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Higher education is just paradoxes all the way down. Public universities funded with taxpayer dollars that take primarily out-of-state and international studen

Higher education is just paradoxes all the way down. Public universities funded with taxpayer dollars that take primarily out-of-state and international students. Too good to recruit from local high schools. Professors hired supposedly for their merit as researchers, chained to massive teaching loads with little autonomy. Adjuncts. Just, everything about adjuncts. Journals too prestigious to give permanent access either to the public who ultimately funded the research, or the academics who did the work, or even the other academics who reviewed that work for free. It all sucks. We desperately need a new model. But the sunken cost of the current system and the perverse incentives keeping it afloat are too great.

csh0 4y ago
Public schools generally charge much more for non-residents (between 2x and 4x more in my experience) in part because of the reason you describe, not having contributed to the tax base which funded the school. Students whose parents maintain domicile in another state (or another country) are generally considered by the school to be residents of that place for tuition purposes and thus not able to access the, much cheaper, in-state tuition. Do you have any statistics on public schools which enroll a majority of international students? With a cursory search, the highest I found was UC Davis with 16% [0]. UC Davis charges, for undergrad, 14k~ for resident and 44k~ for non-resident. Domestic Non-Californians are eligible for loans and potentially a small number of grants via FAFSA from federal tax pools, as with anywhere else. Generally, only Californian residents are eligible for state and university need-based funding. Most non-citizens, such as those who are undocumented, are not eligible for FAFSA.[1] It seems more likely to me that these students, given how much more they pay, contribute to a reduced tax burden for tax payers on the whole. Not to mention the economic benefits from them buying housing, food, beer, etc. In the area where they live while in school. [0] https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/most-international https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-unive... [1] https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/eligibility/requirements/non-us-citizens https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/eligibility/requiremen...
trap_goes_hot 4y ago
FYI: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02351-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02351-1 For what its worth, I've always received a favorable response when I email the author to received a private copy of their paper.

csh0 4y ago

Public schools generally charge much more for non-residents (between 2x and 4x more in my experience) in part because of the reason you describe, not having contributed to the tax base which funded the school. Students whose parents maintain domicile in another state (or another country) are generally considered by the school to be residents of that place for tuition purposes and thus not able to access the, much cheaper, in-state tuition. Do you have any statistics on public schools which enroll a majority of international students? With a cursory search, the highest I found was UC Davis with 16% [0]. UC Davis charges, for undergrad, 14k~ for resident and 44k~ for non-resident. Domestic Non-Californians are eligible for loans and potentially a small number of grants via FAFSA from federal tax pools, as with anywhere else. Generally, only Californian residents are eligible for state and university need-based funding. Most non-citizens, such as those who are undocumented, are not eligible for FAFSA.[1] It seems more likely to me that these students, given how much more they pay, contribute to a reduced tax burden for tax payers on the whole. Not to mention the economic benefits from them buying housing, food, beer, etc. In the area where they live while in school. [0] https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/most-international https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-unive... [1] https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/eligibility/requirements/non-us-citizens https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/eligibility/requiremen...

trap_goes_hot 4y ago

FYI: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02351-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02351-1 For what its worth, I've always received a favorable response when I email the author to received a private copy of their paper.