DEI: making college unaffordable

Apparently the DEI workforce in colleges is there to EMPLOY "diverse" people. My bet is that 1% or less of all DEI administrators (frauds?) are white males, so clearly the purpose of thousands of DEI jobs is to CREATE diversity by hiring the unhireable, those who got degrees in "women's studies" or "African-American studies" and other worthless degrees for which there is zero need and only screetching DEI administrators can create jobs for these useless (actually harmful) people. DEI is a destructive parasite....growing on itself, feeding off of the normal business and academic communities and harming everyone. DEI must DIE.

I can relate. I started out in college at Texas A&M University as a petroleum engineering major and dropped out (before I flunked out) during the fall of my junior year with 1.8 GPA. I got a job on a drilling rig and had an epiphany that I never wanted to see one again. I was able to get back in college at a second-tier school (Southwest Texas State, now Texas State) on their last chance program. Basically, I had to get above a 2.0 in one semester and above a 2.5 by the end of the year. I got all A's and took 18-19 hours each semester and 30 hours each summer to get my GPA high enough to get into the University of Texas School of Business (I needed a 3.5 in my business classes and a 3.0 overall). At the end of my last semester at SWT I had a 4.0 in my business classes but only a 2.9 overall (it takes time to overcome two years of C's, D's and F's). I took a self-paced algebra class via correspondence (this was long before the internet) and finished it in less than a week with a 4.0, which gave me just over a 3.0 overall. It helped that I had already taken two years of calculus when I was an engineering major. When my kids graduated from high school, I encouraged them to take a year or two off and work crappy jobs. One daughter worked the night shift at a motel for two years. When she went to college, she knew what she wanted to do and finished in 3 1/2 years.

What do you mean 'unaffordable'? When you take out loans, just don't pay them. Joe will make me pay for it, and nobody cares what I think.

Our beloved lightbringer is surely the poster child for the D in DIE (It's DEI, dummy> Oh really? DIE is much more descriptive). ‘John Kennedy put a man on the moon, Barack Obama put a man in the women’s bathroom’. Inclusion- We don't have enough homeless; let's bring in 6 million more. Equity-Hailey Davidson=Captain Kirk. He did go where no golfer has gone before.

$10,000 for 4 years of college. Way more than for me. I attended a regional state university in mid-America in the late 1960s. I paid $80 per semester, which included entrance to all school athletic events and book rental. The only additional costs were for the books I had to purchase for outside reading assignments. If I remember correctly, the most expensive one was less than $5,

Good for you #2. I had worked lots of crappy jobs in HS and during college...so had plenty of incentive to study hard in engineering. Long hours, lots of effort, and by the time I graduated with a BSME, I realized that I didn't meet my expectations for understanding technology, so rolled right into a master's degree program. Parents paid for books, tuition and meal ticket plus dorms. That, all together came to $2100 per year in late 60s and early 70s, so about ~$8500 total from parents. I never asked for one cent from parents in four years beyond books (~$60 per quarter), tuition, meal ticket and dorm. IIRC, dorms were $145 per quarter. I paid for gas, car repairs, and ALL other expenses, clothes, etc. from my part time and summer jobs. Years later my mother told my wife that they were quite surprised that I had never asked for any money during college. My sister...same college years later, asked for money regularly, and got it. College used to be affordable. And by working and some parental help, fairly ordinary middle class kids could go to college. I paid my grad school costs 100% myself by working summers and during school and living CHEAP. Shared a $100 a month apartment in grad school with another student, for example. Road kill armadillo wasn't unusual for dinner a few times per quarter.

#2 - I enjoyed your story and salute you as an American and a parent. I hope your children are prolific! (We need them to pay for our Social Security)