At the end of the day, I don't think students are paying attention to who the football coach is. They're paying attention to what the bill is. |
Colleges and universities are really people-driven places. The bulk of the expense is in salary and benefits. |
He drives a Volkswagen Beetle around in an age when you have university presidents who have French chefs in their houses. |
He's respected on both sides of the aisle. Politics in Colorado have become polarized and partisan. Because he was a statewide politician, he's had to work across the aisle to get elected and get things done. |
It was only a generation ago when women were the exception rather than the rule at college campuses, and we're still seeing the increases. There's also the issue of what's going on with men. There are some that are choosing options rather than four-year institutions ... and there are some, particularly among minority groups, that are just not getting an education. |
It's the only game in town in terms of classifying colleges and universities, just because everybody uses it. |
My reading of the tea leaves is, this is going in the other direction — the backlash against this is really starting … immigration issues, they're borderline radioactive in the political world. This has brought a lot of the emotional and really raw debate of this to the front and center and I don't think that's a really conducive climate to push legislation at the state level. |
Things are very good for consumers right now because there are so many (financing) options. |
What I've most commonly heard from our campuses and other public universities and what I've seen is that there is not as much of a response to the program as some people would have expected and some people would have alleged or feared, depending on what side of the issue you're on. |
When state funding goes up, tuition increases go down. States are putting more money back into higher education. We don't know how long that's going to last. |