Quick snapshot about expense of college education:
Jack Lessenberry wrote about the costs of education in Michigan today, and he points out an obvious problem facing so many of us now-a-days.
Lessenberry states, “Recently I found an old tuition receipt from my graduate school days at Michigan in 1978. I was enrolled for nine credits, and paid $554. That’s about $2,000 in today’s money – still far less than today’s students pay.”
I’d like to point out how that’s less money than what a teacher will most likely pay to renew his or her certificate to keep their job.
(That’s six credit hours, or a combination of earned hours of SCECHs (30 SCECH hours = 1 credit), by the way.)
And what about those young teachers at schools where they are working without a contract and there is no pay raises offered?
I was recently chatting Joe Hertler, musician and recent CMU graduate in education, at the Folk the Police concert last week. He said, “Student loans, it’s scary to think if they are even worth it.”
We need to do something able this problem as a state and country.
I have a good job in a field related to my degree – and I still sometimes feel that student loans make college almost not worth it.
— Joe Hertler (@joehertler) January 22, 2014
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