The consequences of these gouging cuts to the Golden State's educational system have meant dramatic increases in tuition, staff reductions, faculty hiring freezes, academic program cuts, and the ushering in of a culture of despair and disrepair throughout public schools, community colleges, and universities.
Condo and his siblings all went to Lowell, where the tuition for faculty children was a dollar a year.
Columbia pays at least half the tuition for faculty children and gives scholarships to many of the children from the community.
Obscured by all this entrepreneurial activity lies a still more fundamental issue: As distance learning enterprises start competing with colleges and universities for students, tuition and faculty, will they not also progressively marginalize "brick and mortar" institutions, perhaps even rendering them obsolete?
One of the major benefits that is often available to academics, but is less common in industry, is that of deeply discounted or free tuition for faculty employees and their dependents which can make a major difference to a family's financial picture.
It's not just about tuition and faculty salaries.
Some state budgets have mandated increased tuition and faculty and course cutbacks, which make many private colleges more attractive.
He gave department heads more say in operating the school, and when the board decided to reduce tuition coverage for faculty children, he defended the existing faculty's right to free tuition.
But during the same period tuition rose and faculty salaries stagnated.
In the engineering school, a committee duly worked up some ideas about undergraduate tuition, but the faculty voted not to adopt them.
