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2020-01-30 Science & Technology

Bethel University Working To Reduce Student Costs By Ditching Textbooks

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Posted by Fred 2020-01-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 How about firing all the diversity and sexual allegations* administrators?

*Put a sign on their former offices door "If you're a victim of crime, go to the police."

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-30 01:06|| 2020-01-30 01:06|| Front Page Top

#2 all schools should get away from the text book scam.

Posted by Chris 2020-01-30 02:22|| 2020-01-30 02:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Bethel University is a Christian university which does not push social justice agendas and does not want to burden students with high priced books that also promote social justice agendas and other ideas of the world like evolution and "save the world" environmentalism.

Posted by boomerc 2020-01-30 02:48|| 2020-01-30 02:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Interesting how the text book scam has never been given attention by the Federal Trade Commission. Come on, math is math.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-30 06:19|| 2020-01-30 06:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Could put all the lectures online as well.

Just let people sit the exams for the basic cost of room and marking..

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-01-30 06:45|| 2020-01-30 06:45|| Front Page Top

#6 When I taught there in the 80's we got around the whole cost problem by simply sending the students to the library. The kids had the option of buying but I was amazed how many simply made time during their normal research trips.

Amazing students.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-01-30 13:09|| 2020-01-30 13:09|| Front Page Top

#7 It's true textbooks are a scam, but their cost is just a drop in the ocean. Nor is it administrative bloat, though that's a big problem. The main issue is that Uncle Sam provides easy loans, so why shouldn't schools hike costs to the moon? For the schools, astronomic cost is a feature, not a bug. But like all bubbles, it will pop if left alone. Sadly, idiot Dems want to forgive college loans which will only raise costs more and pay off their apparatchiks in the academy. A pox on the lot of 'em.

Posted by Spot 2020-01-30 13:37|| 2020-01-30 13:37|| Front Page Top

#8 >The main issue is that Uncle Sam provides easy loans,

100% true, but main is redundant. the loan subsidy makes the graft

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-01-30 14:53|| 2020-01-30 14:53|| Front Page Top

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