PBJ: Attracting out-of-staters good
In an article today, Portland Business Journal’s Andy Giegerich espoused the positive aspects of the Oregon University System’s grab for out-of-state students and their five-digit tuition checks. ”Attracting more out-of-state and international students not only helps schools atone for lost state funding, it ultimately helps businesses,” he writes.
It’s an interesting perspective on the thing. To support it, Giegerich quotes businessmen from two Oregon construction and engineering firms. The majority of students who go to Oregon schools stay in Oregon once they graduate, Giegerich and his sources reason. Larger pool of applicants for jobs at Oregon firms. More competition. Better productivity. More money. Thanks OUS? Like I said, interesting, especially as it’s not one of the voices usually heard in the campus discussion on the issue.
Students from out-of-state pay over three times as much on average as Oregonians to attend the University of Oregon ($19,941 as compared to $6,531). Giegerich writes that the number of out-of-state students at the University has increased by five percent in the last five years.
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it is good that outside wealthy students who come here, help our money situation in universities. However, I’ve noticed that the children of native Oregonians cannot often afford to go to their own universities, and often have to settle for other types of education or work. This is such a widespread phenomenon, that when I talk to young people who were born here, most of them cannot afford to go to University of Oregon or other four-year college, and have to settle for work or lower form of education, where you would make a lot less money on graduation.
It is fine to have out-of-state students come here, and pay a lot of money for tuition, to support our colleges; however, it is a completely different matter for our own children to not be able to afford to go to their own universities in Oregon. — and to have to settle for lower incomes as a result of that lack of education. The head of the University of Oregon at present is not making it any easier for native Oregonians to go to that school; indeed, he has only made it more difficult and more expensive! IS THERE SOME REASON WHY Oregon kids have no help, when it comes for the huge expense of going to universities here? And why out-of-staters are so welcomed with open arms, that our own kids are shoved out of the way, when they want to go to the University of Oregon, too? WHOSE school is it, anyway? Does the University of Oregon and other Oregon colleges only worship money, while they ignore the children of Oregonians? There is always a lot of support for minority groups to go to school; WHY is there no support for children of native Oregonians to go to their own universities, when they are made so very expensive for them to attend?many of we parents have big complaints about this.