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

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581 points gnabgib | 4 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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1. kasey_junk ◴[20 Nov 24 22:00 UTC] No.42198554[source]▶
Do we also return the facilities to the state they were in before, particularly the residential programs? College enrollment percentage? What about a near universal military draft for men?

Not that I think lowering the cost of education is a bad effort but appeals to some prior culture like they are apples to apples comparison is dishonest.

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2. tedunangst ◴[20 Nov 24 22:38 UTC] No.42198874[source]▶
And the classrooms should be an easy stroll from the dorms, downhill, both ways.
3. bigstrat2003 ◴[20 Nov 24 22:52 UTC] No.42198985[source]▶
> Do we also return the facilities to the state they were in before, particularly the residential programs?

Yes, please. Students learned just fine without all the fancy facilities. Perks are great and all, but I would trade them for a low cost of education in a second.

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4. kasey_junk ◴[20 Nov 24 22:57 UTC] No.42199014[source]▶
The university’s would argue that the students voted with their feet, and that those facilities are an arms race that if you lose you lose students.

I do t know that they are disinterested parties in this that can be trusted uncritically but there is a community college near me that has nicer gym facilities for their students than my big 10 Alma matter had for its “student” athletes when I was in school. Something drives that.