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re: So the u of Bama wants to become more yankee?
Posted on 7/23/17 at 1:24 pm to Irons Puppet
Posted on 7/23/17 at 1:24 pm to Irons Puppet
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All those out of state students will leave AL in the rearveiw mirror after they get their degree
Even if this were true (it's only true to an extent) how is this any different than any other university? College graduates follow jobs. I know several UA grads from Georgia that moved to New York when they graduated. They're set to move back to Birmingham in the next few months
This post was edited on 7/23/17 at 1:25 pm
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Posted on 7/23/17 at 1:43 pm to Riseupfromtherubble
It's a double-edged sword. UGA has a similar issue, though we don't have to go out of state as much (though we seem to be getting a ton of kids from Texas and North Carolina). Rather, the ATL metro area is so overflowing with transplant families from the North that our alumni base in places like New York, DC, Boston, San Francisco, Dallas, etc are really growing. The downside is that these are kids that weren't raised ot be die hard UGA fans and after college, they don't have much reason to hang around Athens unless they stay to work in Atlanta (and to be fair many are because Atlanta is steadily on the rise in a number of industries). Still, it's not the UGA of the 80s or 90s where a lot of the in-state students are from native Georgia families.
This post was edited on 7/23/17 at 1:44 pm
Posted on 7/23/17 at 1:44 pm to Riseupfromtherubble
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All those out of state students will leave AL in the rearveiw mirror after they get their degree
Even if this were true (it's only true to an extent) how is this any different than any other university? College graduates follow jobs. I know several UA grads from Georgia that moved to New York when they graduated. They're set to move back to Birmingham in the next few months
Because when you expand your student population to the numbers we have seen in recent years, you have to build more dorms, schoolrooms, roads, traffic light etc. Since High Education has not had funding increased by the State Legislature in recent years, those cost are passed on to the students. Those out of state students will gladly pay the increase because they are usually supplemented by those scholarships or they can not get into their own state schools. The instate student families continue to see tuition increase and are suffering because of this growth. They are the ones who will most likely contribute to the future taxbase after graduation, so out pricing them serves zero benefits to the state. The State of Alabama has become an education mercenary similar to the University of Phoenix, and people are afraid to challenge the PTB because of the success of the Football Programs.
This post was edited on 7/23/17 at 1:53 pm
Posted on 7/23/17 at 2:10 pm to Riseupfromtherubble
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College graduates follow jobs.
Jobs that our shite state government can't create. Huntsville is the only area that's done well getting jobs for the 21st century.
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