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GringoSalado

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  1. I don't see "administration" as a choice, but my very simple answer would be it appears by this logic then that students are subsidizing research by as much as $800-$1,000 per credit hour, which is criminal, if true. So I would arrest research, and double faculty salary.
  2. Apologies for the hijack of this thread but I can't edit and it the above is not CPI (inflation) adjusted, they use an "alternative" to the CPI they call the HECA (higher ed cost adj.). I can't find an exact number rn but it doesn't seem like a material distortion in this context*. But notable. * there was a 2015-2007 discount of a revenue figure that resulted in $12,723 using HECA and $12,440 using CPI, I would calculate and adjust this but I only paid $40 a credit hour so that is above my cost grade.
  3. According to SHEEO (State Higher Education Officers Asssoc.), which may be a propaganda site idk, in 1985 Texas spent $9,123 per FTE (full time equivalent) student enrolled in college. this fell to $8,300 in 2021. https://shef.sheeo.org/state-profile/texas/ could be bullshit says inflation adjusted, so I guess that is 2021 dollars
  4. I think this must be why more folks aren't as gobsmacked at the indefensible and insane tuition hike as I am. Nobody would pay $40 for a Happy Meal. Even if your cost was $10 due to a Happy Meal-need scholly, you would be, at least, perturbed by the fact that something that should require so little effort, and also confers such little benefit, would cost that much regardless who pays for it. But this happened to public school tuition and I feel like I'm the only person pissed off. I used to love to brag about the value of my Texas degree, but it is a huge buttfucking at today's prices IMO. In the late 90s I remember reading that a Texas MBA was a questionable decision from a cost-benefit perspective for a typical student. I think everybody should get a degree that wants one, in whatever you want. But it should not cost, by any measure, $1,130 per hour of instruction. This pricing is saying that in order to educate you on Art History that is the economic cost. Of course we all know this is insane, if things really "cost" that much we would all be living in log cabins. /rant
  5. csb Terry recruited Souley Boum to UTEP (from San Fran).
  6. I was probably thinking more about how much of the $1.7 trillion (and growing) in student loan debt we are eventually going to eat.
  7. Gas would be $34/gal if it followed the same growth.
  8. I'm relatively young compared to Brat, if my tuition followed inflation it would cost $120 today (google says $1,130). Now it is equivalent to a mortgage. I paid my tuition with bartending tips, and spent more on books. Let's say I was only paying half the true cost, so today it should be about $250. University should be less expensive now with modern technology, not 20x more expensive. So now if you get a worthless degree you are reminded of it for the rest of your life. Good job, everyone.
  9. It now costs 20x what I paid. That must've been a hell of a subsidy. Too bad we don't subsidize higher education any more.
  10. The fucking apocalypse will come and go and dipshits will still be misrepresenting the Horns Down thing.
  11. You always do the really important shit yourself.
  12. Oh great, more time for them to post here. (what I should have gone with)
  13. Any AI that replaces surly would have to be programmed by the assholes here.
  14. That's true but it's not a contest.
  15. Everything in moderation
  16. How about 17 years of mixed results?
  17. I personally think we should go by years attended enrolled, much better metric. Since I'm also a UTEP former student I already had an opinion on RT, and that was he's a guy who excelled at finding good players, but his teams underachieved and players didn't develop. It was frustrating because you know that getting talent to El Paso is a tall order and the fanbase was excited about his teams here. That said you see guys like our last coach build their entire reputation on one FF run (tho it'll be interesting to see what he does this year) and you wonder how many coaches could really kill it at a place like Texas but, absent that magical FF run, they are forever going to be stuck at the UTEPs and Fresnos of the world. I'm just conditioning myself for our FF run this year and RT as HC next.
  18. The fact that they dug wells and there was fucking water there is what was/is remarkable (and why a water utility now owns it). Water's kinda alkaline. Alfalfa, cotton, and some grapes. There are large areas on either side of Dell City where you cannot find water at any depth (not a geomorphologist). I had heard of that.
  19. My old man's godfather is from Ft. Davis, and I still go down to Lajitas etc. now and then, so I've driven by this place over the years and had never heard of any of that. Yeah I've wanted to explore those roads myself, but never have. Went out there around when EPWU bought the place.
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