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I have the same thought when my alumni foundation hits me up for a donation: I already paid you many tens of thousands of dollars more than my education actuall
by ElevenLathe 2y ago
I have the same thought when my alumni foundation hits me up for a donation: I already paid you many tens of thousands of dollars more than my education actually cost you, so why should I give you more? Aren't you already the worldwide #1 recipient of my "charitable donations"? I imagine many of my generation feel similarly, and wonder if it is making an impact on alumni donations in aggregate. I can imagine being a lot freer with my checkbook during those calls if I had been able to pay for my whole education with a summer job like a boomer.
- InkCanon 2y agoMaybe I'm a bit too sympathetic to colleges, but it is extraordinarily expensive to hire professors and do research.
- ElevenLathe 2y agoI have a history degree. It is pretty cheap to hire history professors, but they still didn't do it and mostly I was taught by adjuncts and grad students. My education used no expensive facilities other than the library. Also it's a public institution, so if we want it to do research we should pay for that out of tax revenue instead of making 18 year olds take out a mortgage's worth of undischargable loans, and then calling them in ten years in hopes that they want to hand over some more for no benefit.