I'm a bit frustrated with the University of Cincinnati right now. Tuition was steadily rising before the governor capped it, enrollment has been growing to new record numbers every year, and I just read about UC's research programs getting a new record high of funding. With all of this money coming in Arts and Sciences has been suffering, along with the business college and libraries. Huge budget cuts, scaling back of programs, not replacing tenured professors who leave, and this all leads to less classes students need to graduate. The only colleges that seem to get to keep their huge budgets and get to continue taking space away from others are the colleges that bring money and prestige to the university, like engineering, DAAP, CCM, and Medicine. This seems logical, but most of those students creating the record enrollments are not in those colleges, they are in the two that are the most neglected. Granted most of the freshmen that create those numbers drop out, but the ones who don't won't realize for two to three years that they aren't getting what they pay for until they want to take classes they need to graduate. The department that seems to typify this the best is English, pretty much all of the upper level classes are full every quarter. You think this would be a sign to create more classes for majors to take, but the main function and concern of the department is to have 100+ sections of english 101 (which everyone in the university has to take.) Which brings me to my point, it seems pretty evident where our money goes, and that is not towards the education we pay for. Remember this when they call you begging for money for the rest of your life.
My frustration with the university is two fold today as I have already mentioned on facebook and twitter. This morning the first thing I got to witness at work was a UC police officer chewing out a professor for not having a key. Again, this is what we pay for?
Ohio has the second highest public college education cost in the nation next to California. I would venture to call UC the second best thing run by a state government since California. Is libertarianism the only answer when even federalism fails? How do you hold a university accountable when it has no regard for the students it services and the tax payers who fund it?
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I've had this gripe with UC for a long time - that I don't agree with where they decide to spend their money, and that they value expensive new buildings more than a quality education.
on another note, the white text on black is making my eyes bleed, literally - haha. I went to another website after reading this one and was seeing spots! :)
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