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UC Students nervous about latest fee hike warning.

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COMMENT 299622	2012-07-19 08:55 PM
Increased taxes don't help the students. They just go to pay more teacher perks and benefits.
COMMENT 299605	2012-07-19 08:13 PM
The answer is simple, just vote for higher taxes.
COMMENT 299622	2012-07-19 06:22 PM
Here is how you get a college education today: 1. First two years at a junior college 2. Find a state that is not run by education unions for the cheapest tuition; a good public education is as good as anywhere private and more so - no hot house pretensions 3. Work as a companion for a frail but independent adult in exchange for free room and board and flexible hours on duty. 4. Work as many waiter/waitressing jobs than provide tips for excellent service, as you can fit into your schedule. 5. Devote four years to studying and free campus activities as your only recreational outlet. 6. Shop at thrift stores for anything you need. 7. Ditch your monthly cell phone and internet fees, learn to use free internet services 8. No car; public transportation or walking or bike only 9. Keep health costs low with sane and sober living 10. Incur no debt 11. Look at what the military offers for college benefits 12. Explore grants and scholarship
COMMENT 299444	2012-07-19 01:44 PM
I would like to offer a different perspective. I spent a year at UCSB on a partial scholarship. This was in 2004. It was a good school but not great. When I did the math of what is was going to cost me to put myself through another 3 years, it was a staggering amount of money. I didn't want that kind of debt circling around my head. I left UCSB and enrolled in trade school. I became a diesel mechanic. I had a job the day I graduated and have never been unemployed or short work hours since then. The work is interesting and challenging (and to be honest, really fun). I have friends who cannot find work with their 4 year degree from UCSB and other UC schools or are seriously underemployed. There is a dearth of skilled tradespeople out there and a lot of demand. A high dollar UC education doesn't get you what it used to. I'm glad I figured that out especially in this continued woeful economy.
COMMENT 299622	2012-07-19 01:04 PM
Just like the good old days, you have to really want an education and work to get it. That means holding a couple of jobs, living like an deprived orphan, and hitting the books 24/7. Starving students were the way that it was then, and needs to be that way again now. And profs need to do that threadbare routine again instead of driving around campus in their Jaguars and BMW's complaining more about their retirement accounts than their students lack of learning. The education industry massively sucking up the tax dollar for little in return is the next bubble to burst. You heard it here first.
COMMENT 299236P	2012-07-19 09:02 AM
The board of regents has that backwards. They should make salary cuts and staff reductions first and then, if needed, raise tuition. Whether the tax increases happen or not the school is going to raise tuition. That's just what they do and the administrators need raises. I will definitely not be voting for any tax increases for anything until I see local and state governments doing some serious house cleaning. If they can afford to fund all of their pet projects they have too much money and I will not be voting to give them more. My family has had to cut back to the essentials it's time for government to do the same.
COMMENT 299209	2012-07-19 08:07 AM
Why is the solution always to raise taxes or sales tax? How about a salary freeze on top university administrators for 5-10 years?
COMMENT 299202	2012-07-19 07:59 AM
Having foreseen the current financial crisis, I submitted a visionary proposal to UCSB in my application to become Assoc. Vice Chancellor. I wanted to liberate undergrad students from the bricks and mortar of an unstimulating stationary campus by utilizing 21st Century communications technology that allowed them to trek through the world's best places while earning their degrees. I presented a business model that was a combination of Netflix, Microtel and MIT's Online Campus. My idea allowed increased quality, reduction in tuition, dramatic increase in enrollment and good profit to serve grad programs at the UCSB campus. They instead hired someone to manage the campus foodwaste composting project.
COMMENT 299166	2012-07-18 08:17 PM
Meanwhile the presidents are getting double digit pay raises and thousands per month in fringe benefits like a car allowance. Hey students-wake up and smell the corruption. The administrators' AND teachers', yes the teachers, I said it, salaries and benefits are killing your education. Pink slips, and salary cuts are what you should be demanding.

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