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Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT

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581 points gnabgib | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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alsetmusic ◴[20 Nov 24 17:23 UTC] No.42196168[source]▶
Awesome. Now let’s lower the bar further and do it everywhere. And then let’s keep doing more until students can pay their tuition with a summer job, like they could when our elders went to school.

I’ll hold off on asking for higher education to be free, as the culture still pushes back on that. But a return to the former model would be most welcome.

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mixmastamyk ◴[20 Nov 24 17:47 UTC] No.42196423[source]▶
Won’t happen as long as the govt is giving out free loans, which is the driver of increasing tuition prices.
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1. contingencies ◴[20 Nov 24 18:06 UTC] No.42196591[source]▶
Clearly nothing to do with inefficient administration, then. Here in Australia, where a friend's wife works as the PA for the Dean in one of our foremost universities, and I know numerous lecturers, some of whom are moving overseas for better opportunities (in Southeast Asia of all places!), the faculty-members-over-beer perspective is largely that the universities are head-in-sand about AI and about to become far less relevant. IMHO MIT OCW is great, we need more of that, and more mini-courses.
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2. stewarts ◴[20 Nov 24 18:22 UTC] No.42196717[source]▶
I was going to comment that free loans and inefficient/outsized admin go hand-in-hand. On further thinking if you take away the loans, the admin has no choice but to shrink and achieve higher efficiencies.