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As part of their annual alumni gathering the UCLA Anderson School of Management posted a boast on Instagram about how the class of 2002 raised $1.2 million for the school. I certainly support charity, but this boast really struck me – is this the best place for these talented people to be putting this amount of money? Are colleges and universities, as they currently operate, good places for charitable dollars?
They have become political indoctrination centers for the left. They are not worthy of public funding either.
Hear, hear.
I see that my alma mater, Davidson College, now costs $64,000/year. Oddly enough, I got out of Davidson with no debt.
I was lucky. As an undergraduate, UCLA cost $234 a quarter or about $700 a year. I believe it is around $17,000 a year now.
Even $17,000 we could deal with. $64,000? No way.
Current admission rate at UCLA gives each applicant a 17% chance of admission.
http://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/california/university-of-california-los-angeles/admission/
My daughter got accepted at Davidson, but there was no way we could afford it.
What if your local food bank had ever inflating costs and no evidence that they fed more people? You would give to a different charity. Colleges should be judged the same.
Ay yi yi!
Amen, Henry.
But if you’re an illegal non-resident, it might not cost you that much.
So instead of being shown the door, illegals are helped to the front of the line.
That’s our lovely state of California for you.
The sound you just heard was steam coming out of my ears. My bigoted racist ears.
And I’m sure they consider illegals as in-state residents for which fee to charge them. Although, I don’t know of any state that charges illegals the non-resident fee.
Hillsdale is WORTHY. Do what Ray and I have done. We have adopted Hillsdale as our “surrogate” Alma Mater, and we donate as generously as we can. They will be more than happy to have any of you as “surrogate” alumni.
We have donated there several times and will continue to do so. It is a fine institution.
So have we, at times I feel like Larry Arne in my best buddy with the solicitation mail.
Their online classes are superb. They need to do an in depth Shakespeare class though. One play needs 7 lessons. One lesson for each Act. A summation of the themes and a debate. One you get the grade in enough Shakespeare plays you get to take the advanced Shakespeare class.
Years ago I wound up on a flight back from DC next to one of their English professors. Seemed like a decent fellow.
Malcolm Gladwell has a podcast series called Revisionist History. The best one by far is the one discussing a rich guy who donated $100 million to some very small public college rather than his alma mater, MIT (episode is called “My Little Hundred Million.” )
It will change the way you think about donating to colleges and universities.
Hear, hear! I absolutely agree. I have never understood why people donate to their alma mater. I paid for my education and now why would they want more? For some reason people give to it as if it’s part of their identity. I give my money to real charitable organizations.
$100 million! Wow. The Anderson School at UCLA naming only cost John Anderson $17 million.
It is worse than that even.
My alma mater, Cal Poly, S.L.O. just received a donation of $110 million. The same person gave $20 million last year. With another $60 and $20 the last few years they are doing pretty good. Still sending me request for donations though.
My quarterly tuition went up to $18 with a added $2 parking fee my last year(boy did the students gripe about that!). I worked most of the time I was there. I could make it on $1000 a year, that was tuition, books, room and board. It was several times that for my son who graduated in ’85. I don’t know what it is now, but pretty sure it’s in the tens of thousands. It’s got out of hand. All of the education costs in California have, while the state ranking has gone from first to almost last.
The only thing illegals deserve is deportation.
Where have I heard that name before? Oh, yeah. Can we send all of the ex-Obamites to you?
I saw this story. Just plain corrupt.
Exactly. I see it as a transaction I made once upon a time. I gave my school money, they gave me an education. When I graduated, the transaction was complete and we no longer had any obligations to each other.
Sure, I vaguely follow news from my college and still have friends from back then. But I follow news and have friends from old companies I used to work for and cities I used to live in, too. And they don’t ask me for money.
They would certainly fit in. It isn’t like they would change the balance in California politics. We’ve been a one-party state for a while.
Ha Ha! Great analogy!