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Why are they not using this money to pay the tuition for underpriveliged state residents?

Because most state residents are white, and white kids cannot, by liberal definition, be “underprivileged.”

Dummy.

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“Why are they not using this money to pay the tuition for underpriveliged state residents? Such as those disemployed due to globilization? Or those who have been discriminated against by capitalist corporations?”

Or poor bloggers that need remedial speeling?

Obviously they have too much money on their hands.  They should refund that money to the taxpayers.

Why are they not using this money to pay the tuition for underpriveliged state residents? Such as those disemployed due to globilization? Or those who have been discriminated against by capitalist corporations?

What do you mean? Those were all perfectly cromulent words.

I think that the “demographics problem” referred to is simply one a alarming of decline in ND High Schoolers.  That seems to cause concern for ND’s Higher Ed institutions.  (less high schoolers = less incoming freshmen = less money)

Separate from that, is a discussion about diversity, or the lack thereof, on our campi. (plural of campus) The notion that having a “diverse” campus population is somehow morally superior or even that it gives a student a better educational experience is unproven at best.

Back to declining enrollments at ND Schools, conventional wisdom holds that if there are less students we could potentially have fewer professors, keep fewer buildings open and (Gasp!! Is it true??) reduce spending in ND.  Higher Ed eats up over 20% of our State budget.  We continue to lead the nation in per taxpayer spending on Higher Education.

The trend toward out of state (and now international) recruitment simply means that North Dakota taxpayers will be spending more and more tax dollars to educate fewer and fewer ND Kids.

Unfortunately this does not register with higher ed professionals who are stuck in the mindset of having bigger, more prestigious institutions.  The communities hosting institutions love having the influx of students with disposable income.  Inevitability people are convinced that we need growing universities to survive.  It is tough and expensive to accomplish that with a shrinking customer base.

Separate from that, is a discussion about diversity, or the lack thereof, on our campi. (plural of campus) The notion that having a “diverse” campus population is somehow morally superior or even that it gives a student a better educational experience is unproven at best.

I’ve noticed that when enrollment is growing the Universities need more money because they have more students.

When enrollment decreases they need more money to make up for the lost tuition.

Of course if enrollment were to stay the same we’d need more money because we’re not paying our faculty as much as Harvard.

[...] Can somebody please explain to me why recruiting foreign students is such a priority? Because to me it still seems like the problem we’re solving is “too many white people at North Dakota’s universities.” Which isn’t much of a problem, as far as I’m concerned, and certainly not something that should cause the universities to forgo paying their heating bills. [...]