WVU Appears to be in Trouble
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Its all young peoples fault. **** off.
Why can we not do both? Oh ya, we have to keep cutting taxes.
We can do both, but one HAS to come before the other.
Can't grow a sustainable crop if your soil is sh*t
CycloneErik
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Neither has to come first, since we have people living in both groups at the same time.
My son a Freshman at ISU is in CALS, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences as a Animal Ecology Major. With his AP Credits and Dual DMACC classes he had like 27 credits and already has worked with his Counselor to figure out a 3 year plan to graduate, now there is a good chance he goes to Grad School, but could knock off a year of Tuition.....now he has to do 400 hours of Paid or Volunteer Work Study to graduate and that requirement does not get smaller by graduating early. So between classes, Studies, Marching Band, Concert Band and now Adding Women's Pep Band(so taking advantage of the college experience) working any real hours in a job during the school year is hard. Not sure the answers but College is expensive, classes are hard, fun too be had and life lessons to be had.
I'm confused when did 400 hours of community service become a requirement to graduate?
Not sure but he does for his Major. 400 hours of Work Study in something tied to his Major.
The problem with these arguments is that you're pulling data out of your ass to support a false idea of what the average college grad leaves school with. The average loan debt load that students leave with today is around 25-30k. Still obscene compared to what their earning potential is as fresh college grads, but it's certainly not 200k. Granted there are stories of people graduating with extreme debt like this, but they should not be used as an example representing an entire demographic.
As for 50k cars... again. Is this the average experience or just anecdotal evidence to support your generalization of recent college grads? The people I know who buy 50k+ cars can all afford it because their college was either already paid for, or they got lucky and struck gold shortly after graduation. Money was never a concern for them. The ones who don't have expensive cars are still paying out the nose for their student loans.
It's almost as if the public unions that represent those professions are distorting the incentives which makes it less attractive for young people to join, the state should indeed pay these folks more, but if they can't fire the bad ones or they have to pay based on seniority rather than merit there is a fundamental misalignment of interests in hiring/retaining talent.
All of them should be paid nowhere near that much, and several shouldn't be employed at all
No, invading the principal is the start of a vicious cycle that results in the death of the endowment!
We should do something similar to what U of I did with their power plant (although structured better), which nearly doubled their endowment and got them a shiny new piece of infrastructure, and they only have to pay ca. 3% per annum for the 30 years of the PPP agreement (notably this is not debt) - the endowment will return ca. 4-8% net per annum, so not only does the U of I nearly double the endowment and get a new piece of infra (free and clear after 30y as well), but they are also making a profit on the payments.
Source: these kind of investments are literally my job (although I do not work at Meridiam or Engie who did the U of I's deal)
at least 10 years. most ag kids just have their dad sign off 400 hours
As someone who transfered from DMACC to ISU I can say it was definitely the right thing for me. I would not have been ready for ISU right out of high school because I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my life. I'm almost positive I would have flunked out my first year because I wouldn't have had the motivation I needed. Eventually when I got to ISU I was excited and motivated and did really well at ISU because I was a little more mature and took school seriously.
Yes. Drastically. Maybe the absolute worst part of Iowa would appear like an average WV community. Across the board, it's not even close.
This board is absolutely ridiculous sometimes.
Iowa and central Illinois have places in the same boat. Tell me how the river towns in SE Iowa are all that far removed from this?
Maybe not quite as bad yet, but in the team picture.
A quick check shows Burlington with a high school sitting at a 1 or 2 for quality. They are one manufacturing plant away from dying. The crime is worse per capita than Compton
Ft Madison. Keokuk. Southern Iowa.
I think WV is kind of primed for a renaissance in our lifetime.
It's incredibly beautiful, and surrounded on all sides by highly populated places with expensive real estate. Things are dirt cheap in WV, and I think it's just a matter of time before people from DC, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, etc start buying that up and it pivots to a tourism based economy.
Towns like Davis are already seeing this a little.