By: Cliff
I went to a similar school — Middle Tennessee State, in Murfreesboro — on the GI Bill. $292 a month paid for everything, I didn’t have to work or borrow, and I got as good an education from as good a...
View ArticleBy: Alan Jacobs
Cliff, that’s a very telling and very sad story. Unfortunately, it’s also a common one.
View ArticleBy: david carlson
In 1980 (when i graduated) tuition was about 660 a semester at UW system campuses – which are generally considered very good state schools, although not in the top tier. Minimum wage was 3.45, so by...
View ArticleBy: david carlson
just realized a semesters tuition is 3,700 at point, it is 7,500 for the year – still, the point is correct, is not as dramatic. It is not possible to work the summer and pay for tuition.
View ArticleBy: Michael J. Lichens
I also came from a working class family and am the only sibling to graduate from college. While I was once a champion of everyone going to college, I now look at my debt and general disappointment...
View ArticleBy: Jake Meador
Your story sounds kind of like my uncle’s. My grandparents were lower middle class, my grandpa worked on the railroad in Havelock in northeast Lincoln. He’d been in WW2 but got married to a woman he’d...
View ArticleBy: Dan Davis
I attended the University of Oklahoma from 1966-1972. I lived at home with only my dad working at the lower middle class level. Tuition my first year was $7.00/hr and never went above $12.00. My dad...
View ArticleBy: Aaron Gross
There’s a factoid that as the British health care system expanded access to free health care, the difference in health between upper and lower classes increased. Reportedly, the upper classes took more...
View ArticleBy: AnotherBeliever
I graduated from a small liberal arts college in the Midwest about 10 years ago. Tuition was $20,000 a year when I started. It is now $30,000 at the same school. Up to the 1980s, you could go to...
View ArticleBy: Noah172
The increasing class divide in higher education would be less worrisome if the children of the lower classes could find work at middle-class wages in manufacturing and skilled trades — which is less...
View ArticleBy: Travis
The myth that lower-income families have great college options is just that – a myth. Very, very few American colleges – less than 100 – guarantee to provide full financial aid to their admitted...
View ArticleBy: sal magundi
i won a scholarship to a private college in PA. that and a campus job brought the total cost for my freshman year down to $2500, in the 70s. my immigrant w/c parents could pay it. i worked in the...
View ArticleBy: TomD
In 1977 I graduated from Michigan Technological University with a BS degree in Engineering. I paid $256 a quarter for tuition and my senior year shared a house with 6 others and paid $160 a quarter for...
View ArticleBy: Heather
sal magundi says: i won a scholarship to a private college in PA. that and a campus job brought the total cost for my freshman year down to $2500, in the 70s. … today, that school charges $56,000 per...
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