Harrison, Jeffus are right to oppose tuition breaks
Bully for Pricey Harrison!
And bully for Maggie Jeffus and Laura Wiley, too.
It takes a lot of pluck to lead the charge for repealing the provision giving in-state tuition at our state universities to out-of-state athletes.
For the current academic year, that’s a difference of $11,494 for students at UNCG and $15,206.24 for students on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.
In this case, it’s the money and the principle of the thing.
Trudy Atkins
Greensboro
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They are right, indeed. The supremely unqualified Erskine Bowles has great ideas of ways to give away taxpayer dollars to non-taxpayers. He tried to give in-state tuition to illegal aliens while denying in-state tuition to active duty military. Thankfully, his plans were discovered and defeated.
Now, once again, he wants to raise in-state rates to taxpaying residents while at the same time proposing another giant giveaway to out-of-state students.
Whether or not students are athletes is irrelevant: they are just students who play sports. Why athletes instead of science and math scholars?
Let's take all the money Bowles wants to give away and create a few in-state scholarships in math and science, or maybe fund a college degree for someone who wants to stay in NC and teach.
Now if he wants to relinquish his salary to fund out-of-state students, that's fine with me. Actually, I just like the idea of getting rid of Bowles altogether.
Posted on March 5, 2009 1:48 PM
Are we assuming out of state academic scholarship students pay out of state tuition. Anybody do any research?
Posted on March 5, 2009 4:57 PM
Good question, Mick...I will follow up
Posted on March 5, 2009 6:38 PM