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Published Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008 | 8:18 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008 | 10:15 a.m.
The chancellor is at it again, with bipartisan support letters from Carson City and a hard-to-read, syntactically brutal missive of support from the NDA. Read it all at right.
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Won't anyone else bother to question Rogers assumption that our universities are engines of this economy?
I mean, if less than 50 percent of students actually graduate in 6 years that means a lot of students are wasting time and money going to college. That opportunity cost alone suggests we might be wasting money and therefore retarding our economic growth.
These letters are jokes.
The word "tax" or "revenue" does not appear anywhere on any of the letters.
I guess they do not have any guts.
They are hiding under the rocks.
It would be correct to assume that all these people want large increases in taxes and many of them are Democrats.
A vote for Democrats is a vote for higher taxes.
The reason why students graduate in 6 years is because there are not enough classes offered to allow us to graduate in a timely manner due to a lack of funding.
Universities are the engines of the economy. They study the way technologies can be adapted for public use, review and study data to look for efficiencies and waste, and they are the laboratories where new ideas can be tested and refined.
A vote for a Democrat is a vote for better education, health care, and quality of life. Not to mention greater tax cuts at the national level.
Another thing we need to consider about a university (and for that matter public schools, and I wish Mr. Rogers and everyone else would stop saying K-16, because that is so much horse manure--when you go to college, you don't go to 13th grade): if an area has a lousy educational system, businesspeople who want their families to get an education or want well-trained employees aren't going to locate in that area. UNLV got an engineering college in part because the money came in when it became clear that related businesses wouldn't come in here without such a school. To say that we don't need good schools, from kindergarten through the graduate level, for economic diversification is ridiculous.
It's easy. Fire some of the do-nothing professors (researchers) who don't even teach. Then get rid of the useless courses that have no business being a college credit course. Then you'll have a real education system. And then stop asking for more money. Raise the friggin' tuition. If kids want to go, they mommies and daddies will pay!