A Sea Of Red

I guess we all misinterpreted the meaning in convo yesterday:

Liberty University students each will pay $540 less for tuition in the 2009-10 school year than the school originally had planned to charge.

In the school’s convocation service Wednesday morning, Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. announced that the school would raise its tuition rates for the next year, but only by about half as much as originally planned.

http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/loc ... ned/12916/

So...the increase is only half as much as planned...

Is that supposed to make everybody feel better? Cool...we only have to pay half as much as you originally wanted us to?

Oops.

i thought that sounded way too good to be true...personally i was a little jealous...but now, the world is right again...haha

Liberty University will cut its tuition rates for residential students by $540 for the 2009-2010 school year, Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. announced at the school’s convocation service this morning.
He said that for the last two years, the college has been blessed with “an outpouring” of donations from donors.
“What we’ve decided to do is use that economic prosperity to bless you,” he told a cheering crowd of thousands of students.
“We can do it without cutting any programs or academics,” he said.
When applied to all of the school’s 11,300 residential students, the tuition decrease will total more than $6 million, Falwell said.

The tuition rate for the current school year is $16,532, he said. That will drop to $15,992.

how exactly is THAT ^^^ LESS of an increase?

The previously published tuition for next year was $16,532.

Full-time tuition for this year is $15,450.

blwall1416 wrote:The previously published tuition for next year was $16,532.

Full-time tuition for this year is $15,450.

oh.

The quote was a bit misleading then, in that it specifically says CURRENT. Maybe I'm just slow

Just so we're on the same page:

"CURRENT" year = NEXT year

"DROP"= RAISE (but not as much)

have the liberals taken over the mansion?

PAmedic wrote:

blwall1416 wrote:The previously published tuition for next year was $16,532.

Full-time tuition for this year is $15,450.

oh.

The quote was a bit misleading then, in that it specifically says CURRENT. Maybe I'm just slow

Always blame the other party...have I not taught you anything? It was ALL Blwal's fault

sorry-- I was busy editing and adding demonic emoticons

PAmedic wrote:have the liberals taken over the mansion?

Wow you're behind the times. Everything is run out of North Campus now.

The mansion is a VIP B&B.

You guys seem to be forgetting that operating costs go up every year---salaries, food, electricity, etc. The annual increases in tuition at LU in recent years have barely covered the increases in operating expenses. The tuition rates for 2009-2010 were published last Fall and were only increased enough to cover actual operating cost increases. By cutting those rates, LU has chosen to eat the increases in operating expenses in order to help students cope with the national economy. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth!

The younger generation's lack of gratitude is astonishing to many of us Old Hags.

nobody here was really complaining about the prices going up...it makes sense that prices have to go up with the prices of everything else going up that is why i thought it was kind of odd that prices would go down...the only one you could say was "complaining" was a fellow old hag there sly....

Price up or down $500, who cares? I just think it's sad that students today are faced with a huge amount of debt upon graduation. It used to be drs and lawyers that were strapped with big college debt, now it's everyone but a select lucky few. Salaries are not keeping up with the cost of tuition, especially for 80% of those poor saps that are gonna end up flipping burgers after graduation until they can get into a decent job. It's crazy.

Sly Fox wrote:The younger generation's lack of gratitude is astonishing to many of us Old Hags.

You do realize that not a single current student had posted in this thread until I am right now, right? It was your generation that was doing the complaining.

SuperJon wrote:
You do realize that not a single current student had posted in this thread until I am right now, right?

Other than when you posted earlier in this thread?

SuperJon wrote:

PAmedic wrote:have the liberals taken over the mansion?

Wow you're behind the times. Everything is run out of North Campus now.

I was not complaining at all...just pointing out new information.

Ha, I forgot I posted earlier. Man I'm dumb sometimes.

Ha.....I wasn't complaining either. I was commenting on PA's reading comprehension...

scuzdriver wrote:Price up or down $500, who cares? I just think it's sad that students today are faced with a huge amount of debt upon graduation. It used to be drs and lawyers that were strapped with big college debt, now it's everyone but a select lucky few. Salaries are not keeping up with the cost of tuition, especially for 80% of those poor saps that are gonna end up flipping burgers after graduation until they can get into a decent job. It's crazy.

so true...so true...if i had known before I started school what I know now I would've completely taken a different course of action to get more financial assistance...but such is life i suppose

It's amazing how EVERYONE is all of the sudden not complaining

Hold My Own wrote:It's amazing how EVERYONE is all of the sudden not complaining

I read that this morning and my first thought was, "I wonder how many people are still gonna whine about stupid stuff knowing who reads this board now."

its just all these punk kids on here...always complaining...

oh wait....