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Originally Posted by Minte
Private schools like Harvard aren't the issue. They are private afterall and don't have many students. Harvard normally has around 2000 students enrolled. The school I went to, UW-Madison has 45,000 students with a huge annual payroll. People that live here all know that the UW could lose 20% of the staff and do a better job educating for less money.
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Tie the cost of tuition to the amount spent on each student of the university. If they did that tuition prices would fall through the floor at thousands of schools. That massive downward pressure on price would take care of the rest in short order. Tenure at the higher education level is vital because it is the only thing that allows students to be taught unpopular things. You can pass regulations that bring costs in line (or impact salaries) without removing the protection against being fired for saying things the Board of Trustees dislikes. Getting rid of tenure is killing a mosquito with a machine gun, we can be smarter than that.
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Everyone who works for it should be able to get a secondary education. The way costs are rising here it's making it more and more difficult for people from WI. to even get accepted at Madison. I don't have numbers, but I see the numbers of people from outside the US increasing every year. This link lists salaries from 4-5 years ago. http://www.collegiatetimes.com/datab...consin-madison
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I agree completely that costs need to be brought down substantially. That does not require making professors subject to being fired for teaching content disliked by the Trustees. You need to separate the need for cost controls from the need for educators to be able to teach unpopular content. Both are important and you do not need to kill one to preserve the other.
