Don't forget 99 cent notebooks.
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Just look at the facts. Schools are dedicated to maximizing the rent they receive from leasing companies. If they were committed to the best service to students they were stay independent. If you haven't noticed yet, textbooks are taking a back seat from the new leadership at Follett. Their goal is flash sales, slim jims and iphone cases. BN and Follett are interchangeable to the schools.
That is the attitude that allowed for many needed changes. Too many corporate stakeholders (pompous 12490) thinking that service to the students took a back seat to company/college profits. Guess what, students opinions ARE what matter. If students basic requirements are not meet at a reasonable price and delivered in time you obviously do not realize it's a new market and thankfully we know we have a voice and NOW we have options. We will let they campuses know if books and supplies are not available when classes start and we EXCEPT the companies who made the contracts to be accountable, whoever signed it. It's our future, which seems to have more promise then yours.
As long as BN and Follett are escalating the rent to the schools, they could care less.
Executive Compensation at Public Colleges http://chronicle.com/article/What-Public-College-Presidents/131912/
Student tuition kept raising every year, why? Maybe they needed some competition. 2 mil in salary for a public college, really?
The public colleges and universities remind me of Snowball and Napoleon in Orwell's Animal farm. They have grown fat on the endless supply of taxpayer funded loans. No incentive to control cost when there is no shortage of applicants with pockets filled with subsidized grants and loans.
Squealing loudly if legislatures even think of reducing their feed or private colleges (that must meet their customers needs or die) takes a nibble from the trough.
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Public/Private Colleges/Universities have their own massive problems and are hurting big-time. In a nutshell, For-Profit Schools are taking away students - especially those with grants and scholarships, giving the students a sub-par education (if any), and the execs are running off with the monies. Enjoy: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/profit-college-scams-hurt-students-taxpayers-121740602.html