Because They Can: Part 1
The University of North Dakota’s law school wants to start a series of steep tuition increases for new students.
For North Dakota residents who enroll in the law school this fall, the plan would raise tuition 15 percent each year for four years. A year’s tuition would increase from about $6,000 to $10,620 during the 2011-12 school year.
Students already in the law school would see their tuition bills go up as well, but the increases would be smaller. Law school officials say UND’s tuition is cheap compared to law schools at comparable universities.
The Board of Higher Education’s budget, audit and finance committee has endorsed the proposal. It goes to the full board later.
Why is is tuition going up?
Not because professor pay is going up.
Not because of high energy costs.
According to “Law school officials” tuition is going up because “UND’s tuition is cheap compared to law schools at comparable universities.”
And what’s the deal with the arbitrary 15% increase for 4-consecutive years? What dark hole did they pull that figure from?
The role of a publicly financed university is to provide the best education at the lowest cost, right?
At what point did UND Law School become a revenue source for the state? At what point did the Board of Higher Education start rubber stamping policies that will drive more young people out of the state? (Hint: It started a long time ago)
Driving up the cost of education because it is cheap should tell every North Dakotan that the unelected and unaccountable policy makers in the North Dakota University System are out of touch and actively trying to hurt the state.
