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Could you define basic decency for us? Should every college student receive a private dorm room and unlimited time on exams?
by nradov 9mo ago
Could you define basic decency for us? Should every college student receive a private dorm room and unlimited time on exams?
- MattRix 9mo agoI mean, sure, why not?
- nradov 9mo agoSounds good. How about a free emotional support pony while we're at it? And people wonder why college tuition prices are so high.
- Aurornis 9mo agoThere are only two ways to give everyone a private dorm room: 1. Drastically reduce admissions until a 1:1 ratio of rooms to students is achieved. Once rooms are full, you have to reject students. Overall college admissions is cut significantly. 2. Massively increase tuitions so that more single-occupancy rooms can be built So which one do you choose? I suspect most of these proposals rely on a world where money is infinite and nothing has to be sacrificed to get there.
- sfifs 9mo agoUmm.. these elite universities are sitting on tens of billions of dollars in endowment funds. They can easily build dorm rooms if they care to - especially given the universities already own the land and have vast amounts of unused land.
- DiggyJohnson 9mo agoI think there is a fallacy to look at endowments like they are checking accounts. Or to assume elite universities generally have unused land or can rebuild a large amount of their dorms for less than hundreds of millions of dollars and significant disruption to campus life
- resoluteteeth 9mo agoOr make all the rooms smaller single rooms rather than intentionally building all the rooms as doubles? Or don't require students (especially freshmen) to live in dorms so more people can live in apartments off campus to reduce the need for dorm rooms?
- DiggyJohnson 9mo agoThat’s not actually feasible. It’s cost prohibitive to refactor all the shared dorms and/or tear down and rebuild a significant fraction of on campus spaces.
- slumberlust 9mo agoJust two options huh? Who's agenda are you pushing?
- renewiltord 9mo ago[flagged]
- DiggyJohnson 9mo agoAre you being serious? Because it’s cost prohibitive to the university and undermines the ability for educators to evaluate student performance. Imagine being the TA that has to proctor an examination that takes an indefinite amount of time. I understand your sentiment but it seems like you’re avoiding the harsh reality of things. And these things are not that “harsh” in the grand scheme of things.