Tuition Increases and Layoffs Are Coming to a Broad Set of Universities

[Hume]

Public universities in the Midwest are raising prices for out-of-state students, as Florida schools consider making the same move for the first time since 2012.

Cornell and Duke are among the colleges weighing layoffs. The University of Minnesota is cutting hundreds of jobs, even as undergraduate tuition soars as much as 7.5 percent.

Just as America’s colleges are preparing to welcome what could be the largest freshman class in the nation’s history, political and economic forces are unleashing havoc on higher education budgets. Schools are grappling with meager upticks in state support and topsy-turvy economic forecasts, and Republicans in Washington are pursuing federal budget cuts and threatening tax hikes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/us/tuition-hikes-layoffs-universities.html

Trump: Make America Dumb

 

[Damocles]

We have a nearly $2 Trillion projected deficit. We cannot afford to just keep throwing money where you want it thrown.

 

[Hume]

We have a nearly $2 Trillion projected deficit. We cannot afford to just keep throwing money where you want it thrown.

Good point. America needs to be uneducated.

 

[Hume]

I am tired of medical research wasting our time curing diseases that used to wipe out populations. Let people die.

 

[Damocles]

Good point. America needs to be uneducated.

Or. We can educate to a certain level then expect people to pay for more.

 

[Hume]

Or. We can educate to a certain level then expect people to pay for more.

No idea what you are talking about.

 

[Damocles]

I am tired of medical research wasting our time curing diseases that used to wipe out populations. Let people die.

Right up until the moment the economy collapses under the weight of the debt and the monetization of debt and then far more people die because we were foolish enough to think we'd never have to pay the piper.

 

[Hume]

Right up until the moment the economy collapses under the weight of the debt and the monetization of debt and then far more people die because we were foolish enough to think we'd never have to pay the piper.

zzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Damocles]

No idea what you are talking about.

It is a foreign idea to you. Free education to a certain point (High school) then if you want more you should pay for it. (College and grad school).

 

[Hume]

It is a foreign idea to you. Free education to a certain point (High school) then if you want more you should pay for it. (College and grad school).

High school is not free. Everyone pays for it through property taxes.

 

[Damocles]

High school is not free. Everyone pays for it through property taxes.

Nice that you know that. Hence my suggestion we pay for it to a certain point, then you pay for it if you want more. Every single conversation with you is like a slog through mud.

You cannot understand simple concepts and I have to repeat them with different wording several times before you either get it or I have to give up.

 

[Hume]

Nice that you know that.

You did not know that?

 

[Phantasmal]

We have a nearly $2 Trillion projected deficit. We cannot afford to just keep throwing money where you want it thrown.

Can we put you down for not supporting research and higher education? Are you from the school of “only the wealthy should be educated”?

 

[Hume]

Can we put you down for not supporting research and higher education? Are you from the school of “only the wealthy should be educated”?

Yes he is. Like most of GOP in Congress--from ivy league colleges.

 

[Sailor]

Ivy league schools, once coveted for their superior education, have become nothing but a sitting service for already undereducated idiots. I can see how the left idolizes that.

 

[Hume]

Ivy league schools, once coveted for their superior education, have become nothing but a sitting service for already undereducated idiots. I can see how the left idolizes that.

Yet a lot of Republicans in Congress are from ivy league schools. Like President Trump

 

[Sailor]

Yet a lot of Republicans in Congress are from ivy league schools. Like President Trump

Yes. And some democrats also. When they where worth something. Not like what the left has made them into today. You may go now.

 

[Hume]

Yes. And some democrats also. When they where worth something. Not like what the left has made them into today. You may go now.

You never attended college. So you know nothing about what happens there.

 

[Sailor]

You never attended college. So you know nothing about what happens there.

I have a much higher educational level than you could conceive. Once again. You may go now. And take that stoned ass bitch Phanta with you.

 

[Hume]

I have a much higher educational level than you could conceive. Once again. You may go now. And take that stoned ass bitch Phanta with you.

you're a fucking idiot