My college is robbing me.
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 15:32 last edited by
UNC-Charlotte, like many colleges across the country, is charging me for products and services even though students like me won’t have access to them. Despite moving almost all classes online this fall in response to COVID-19, UNC-Charlotte elected to charge full-time in-person tuition and fees to all students. But, if I'm not on campus, why am I being charged for transportation services, food facility fees, tech fees, safety and security fees, and university fees meant to cover on-campus clubs and activities?
Students will be paying $1,670 in fees this year, despite campus operating at limited capacity, and on a very shortened schedule. My bill this semester, like the bills of other full-time students who used to receive their instruction traditionally, features $1,097 in “university fees” alone, whereas distance education students who, like myself and most of my classmates, will access their classes 100 percent online and pay $0.
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UNC-Charlotte, like many colleges across the country, is charging me for products and services even though students like me won’t have access to them. Despite moving almost all classes online this fall in response to COVID-19, UNC-Charlotte elected to charge full-time in-person tuition and fees to all students. But, if I'm not on campus, why am I being charged for transportation services, food facility fees, tech fees, safety and security fees, and university fees meant to cover on-campus clubs and activities?
Students will be paying $1,670 in fees this year, despite campus operating at limited capacity, and on a very shortened schedule. My bill this semester, like the bills of other full-time students who used to receive their instruction traditionally, features $1,097 in “university fees” alone, whereas distance education students who, like myself and most of my classmates, will access their classes 100 percent online and pay $0.
wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 15:37 last edited by Copper@George-K said in My college is robbing me.:
why am I being charged for transportation services, food facility fees, tech fees, safety and security fees, and university fees meant to cover on-campus clubs and activities?
Because there's one born every minute.
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 15:47 last edited by
If you could get accreditation, now is the time for major renovation in the process of college education.
If you could get accreditation.
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 15:50 last edited by
The swamp might not like to give out those accreditations. Because the swamp cares deeply about quality of education, and will defend it unyieldingly.
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 15:58 last edited by jon-nyc
It’s not so simple as accreditation. It’s general recognition of status.
There’s a reason we look at Stanford, Berkeley, Cal Poly Palmona, and Bakersfield Community College quite differently, despite their all being accredited.
It comes down to the velvet rope.
We are primates after all.
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It’s not so simple as accreditation. It’s general recognition of status.
There’s a reason we look at Stanford, Berkeley, Cal Poly Palmona, and Bakersfield Community College quite differently, despite their all being accredited.
It comes down to the velvet rope.
We are primates after all.
wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 16:28 last edited by@jon-nyc said in My college is robbing me.:
It’s not so simple as accreditation. It’s general recognition of status.
There’s a reason we look at Stanford, Berkeley, Cal Poly Palmona, and Bakersfield Community College quite differently, despite their all being accredited.
It comes down to the velvet rope.
We are primates after all.
Maybe for the elite class, but us working slobs generally don't give too much thought to whether you graduated from Hah-vahd, or some such. Snot tracks on the ceiling don't bale the hay.
A degree from an accredited school is usually what is needed for entry into many jobs in the working world. For example, our local school board doesn't give a rip where you graduated from, but they do care if you have a degree and are accredited in the subject you wish to teach.
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It’s not so simple as accreditation. It’s general recognition of status.
There’s a reason we look at Stanford, Berkeley, Cal Poly Palmona, and Bakersfield Community College quite differently, despite their all being accredited.
It comes down to the velvet rope.
We are primates after all.
wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 16:55 last edited by Aqua Letifer@jon-nyc said in My college is robbing me.:
It’s not so simple as accreditation. It’s general recognition of status.
There’s a reason we look at Stanford, Berkeley, Cal Poly Palmona, and Bakersfield Community College quite differently, despite their all being accredited.
It comes down to the velvet rope.
We are primates after all.Only for some jobs. Journalism, media, and tech don't work this way at all anymore. I know a videographer who makes an assload producing material for bike companies. He's also done TdF* and the Giro a few times. He has no degree, and neither do his assistants. That's the norm among his peers; no degree or an Associate's from a small liberal arts or community college are the norm. And in large parts of tech, previous projects trump degree almost every time.
But sure, for other fields, pieces of paper do buy you clout.
*That's a fun story when you consider the NBC monopoly.
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 16:58 last edited by
Is there recourse? Can these students take the school to court or refuse to pay for services not rendered?
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 17:24 last edited by
We got a refund from our daughter's school. These students should eventually get one too.
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 17:38 last edited by
I'm going to have to look at my daughter's bill since she is at UNCSA.
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 18:09 last edited by
@Mik said in My college is robbing me.:
I'm going to have to look at my daughter's bill since she is at UNCSA.
I'm a little surprised you would send your daughter to a CSA school.
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 18:31 last edited by
You shouldn't be.
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 19:58 last edited by
Mik loves his CSA veggies.
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 20:58 last edited by
Jon you are too sleep. Go to drunk.
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 21:05 last edited by
@Mik said in My college is robbing me.:
Jon you are too sleep. Go to drunk.
Starkle, starkle, little twink!
Who the hell you are, I think?
Tee martoonis make a guy
Fool so feelish, don't know why.I'm not drunk as thinkle peep,
I'm just a little slort of sheep.
So, just one more to fill my cup,
I have all day Sober to Sunday up.