For-Profit Colleges Disproportionately Responsible for Increase in Debt and Defaults

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by sanantone, Mar 20, 2019.

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  1. egrigilicious

    egrigilicious New Member

    I'm not high on proprietaries or the high prices and unsavory marketing tactics of some of them, but you've given me something to think about with that.
     
  2. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    And which Ivy is public?
     
  3. Neuhaus

    Neuhaus Well-Known Member

    Cornell is both private and public.

    Some of its colleges are privately endowed. The others (Industrial and Labor Relations, Human Ecology, Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Veterinary College) were established by act of the New York Assembly and are officially state schools administered by Cornell University.

    The result is that tuition varies depending upon which school you apply to. If you go to one of the state schools you pay regular in-state tuition as if you were attending a SUNY and the Excelsior Scholarship applies as well. Out of state students pay the same price that everyone pays to go to one of the "private" (endowed) schools.

    Private university with public colleges within it.
     
  4. mintaru

    mintaru Active Member

    You are speaking about Cornell's so-called contract colleges, (a New York-specific type of school) but is a contract college really a state school? I always thought of contract colleges as a type of public-private partnership in higher education.
     
  5. Neuhaus

    Neuhaus Well-Known Member

    Employees of the contract colleges are in the state employee retirement system, any changes to the structure of those schools including their programs must be approved by the NY Board of Regents and, in many cases, the New York Assembly itself. It's a unique situation, for sure. But they can rightly be called "state schools."
     

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