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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I'm not talking about for profit colleges. I'm talking about imposition of cost controls.
Part of delivering that "public good" is operating in a responsible manner that doesn't turn a significant portion of the public that takes on debt to acquire this good into a serf.
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I don't understand what you are suggesting or arguing, so maybe you could explain.
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Given the high pricing, and loss of brand status and perceived ROI among selective private institutions, a lot of students who'd normally go private are seeking state school admissions. Particularly in the South (I'm not sure exactly why, but I assume the South is seen as a future growth area). They're just doing what the private schools did years ago.
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I don't see any loss of brand status or perceived ROI among selective private institutions. The selective ones are only getting harder to get into.
Your answer here implies that you think public schools are acting like profit-maximizing businesses in trying to grow, but I thought we just agreed with Scott Galloway that that's not how those administrations are acting.
I grew up in the Northeast and live in California now, and the two areas are dramatically different in attitudes towards public schools. In the East, the best schools are almost all private schools, and the college admissions game is a process of sorting out the status ranking of the various schools and then where you as an applicant fit in that hierarchy. In California, there just aren't that many private schools, and most people are much less hung up on the status significance of the choice. Also, it's much more common to go to a two-year school and then transfer to a UC.
