More than 20,000 students at McGill and Concordia universities are set to strike for a week on Monday to protest the Quebec government's tuition hikes for out-of-province and international students.
Technology still costs money. Instead of an instructor with a chalkboard every classroom now has a computer and projector with ongoing costs associated with them. A 100 year old chalk board works just fine, but a 5 year old computer needs replaced.
Every institution now has to have a web site and every student, faculty, and staff member has to have e-mail; every office has computers and printers; every building has wifi; every paper process now has a digital equivalent; and every one of those things have to have staff to support them. Technology gets very expensive very fast.
Technology has increased the availability of and decreased the cost of gaining knowledge. Wikipedia is at our fingertips and youtube has scores of free, topic specific learning videos. Technology has not decreased the cost of running a University.
Then the university should get more money. But in this case, they’re getting less. The government is mandating that they increase tuition so that the extra money can be funneled to other schools.
I’ve got a family member who’s a level 2 Canada research chair and professor. During COVID I was asking about the move to virtual learning and how they were set up for it, they were telling me that a much larger portion of her grant money who’s going to technology then before and it had started a few years earlier.
Now this prof does some crazy stuff with brain scanning and virtual reality which takes some horsepower and probably needs more upgrades than your typical university computer lab. But the point remains their budgets were being strained 5 plus years ago because of the technology that’s been incorporated into teaching.
I’m inclined to believe that the relative costs of operating a university theatre have risen rather than dropped since I graduated 20 years ago.
Technology still costs money. Instead of an instructor with a chalkboard every classroom now has a computer and projector with ongoing costs associated with them. A 100 year old chalk board works just fine, but a 5 year old computer needs replaced. Every institution now has to have a web site and every student, faculty, and staff member has to have e-mail; every office has computers and printers; every building has wifi; every paper process now has a digital equivalent; and every one of those things have to have staff to support them. Technology gets very expensive very fast.
Technology has increased the availability of and decreased the cost of gaining knowledge. Wikipedia is at our fingertips and youtube has scores of free, topic specific learning videos. Technology has not decreased the cost of running a University.
Then the university should get more money. But in this case, they’re getting less. The government is mandating that they increase tuition so that the extra money can be funneled to other schools.
Yeaaah, no. You are overblowing the costs. And it has absolutely decreased the cost of running a university.
I’ve got a family member who’s a level 2 Canada research chair and professor. During COVID I was asking about the move to virtual learning and how they were set up for it, they were telling me that a much larger portion of her grant money who’s going to technology then before and it had started a few years earlier.
Now this prof does some crazy stuff with brain scanning and virtual reality which takes some horsepower and probably needs more upgrades than your typical university computer lab. But the point remains their budgets were being strained 5 plus years ago because of the technology that’s been incorporated into teaching.
I’m inclined to believe that the relative costs of operating a university theatre have risen rather than dropped since I graduated 20 years ago.
You might be on the wrong website, buddy.