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      <![CDATA[I wrote to the author of this article and he suggested I post here for informational purposes as he is not sure when he can do a follow up story. I suggested to him that he offer some help to people who find themselves deeply in student loan debt.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[UofR alum (and not so proud of it)]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I almost threw the newspaper across the room (not your fault, City!) when I read UofR Burdick's quote that a family with $100K income should be able to pay $20 to $25K per year for college costs.
        
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      <![CDATA[I don't know, that essay seemed to make sense.<br>
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Less tangible returns? "A Liberal Arts degree is not useless for getting a good job or making good money.
        
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      <![CDATA[A strange essay. He asserts that a liberal arts degree makes one a better communicator and listener, more creative and receptive to art, and a better negotiator.
        
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      <![CDATA[http://www.academia.edu/2454947/Liberal_Arts_and_the_Advantages_of_Being_Useless
        
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      <![CDATA[Many people enter college for an enormous variety of reasons under a large range of circumstances which may or may not have anything to do with finances. Let's set that all aside.
        
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      <![CDATA[I love all the comments. The investment in a Fine Arts degree should not be the same as the investment in an Engineering degree, plain and simple.
        
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      <![CDATA[There is dumb, and there is industrial strength dumb. Attending the University of Rochester to obtain a degree in education, or RIT for journalism, is industrial strength dumb.
        
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      <![CDATA[As a U of R grad (undergrad and master's in teaching) and a Rochester City School District teacher, I am disgusted by Dean Jonathan Burdick's callousness towards the crippling effects of the financial crisis on American poor and working families. In a time of stagnant wages, mortgage meltdowns, widespread un- and under-employment, and looming government cutbacks, Dean Burdick, and by extension, the U of R leadership, have declared themselves firmly on the side of Wall Street and the 1%.
        
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      <![CDATA[Here are some solutions to the student loan crisis, but first, understand the cause, limitless risk-free  lending that fuels tuition inflation. So, end government backing and let the banks carry the risk.
        
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      <![CDATA[I am so happy to read these comments and realize that some people do indeed get it. The simple fact of the matter is if you graduate in the bottom 25% of a computer science or engineering program, you can STILL find a decent job after college.
        
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      <![CDATA[I used to sympathize with the current Millenials re this issue but then I realized that there is no reason to; unlike my Gen X generation, Millenials have loads of info abt damn near anything at their fingertips via the Internet.  Back in the ol' public library days, if you lived in Doorknob like I did, there were precious few info resources even at a local library that discussed things like avg earnings for fields, etc.  Now, a Millenial has 0 excuse for not going in with open eyes.
        
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      <![CDATA[I believe there are too many people going to college for the sake of going to college. Many of them are not learning any tangible skills like engineering or medicine.
        
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      <![CDATA[The example of the journalism student with the $80k in loans is a good example of what happens when people have unrealistic expectations of their career choice. In a time when CNN no longer has an office of investigative journalism, and most 'news' sources are relying more and more on opinions, unpaid bloggers and pundits making money from the books they sell on the side, there is essentially no 'profession' left in that field worth pursuing.
        
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      <![CDATA[Higher education is a financial gamble and some major/school/job market combinations are losers. Perhaps it shouldn't be that way, but it is. Every article of this type I've read contains a profile of a student who majored in a liberal arts field from a high priced private school.
        
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      <![CDATA[Ps. I am also keenly aware of my typo in the first sentence.
        
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      <![CDATA[I am substitute teacher, so I can empathize with the struggle that Ms. Nicholson faces. While I do not see it as crippling, the debt load I carry from undergrad and masters level education is about $75,000.
        
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      <![CDATA[I do not understand why someone would pay $80,000 to RIT for a degree in journalism. A little research, which some one interested in that field should find easy to do, would clearly show that a) there are very few jobs in that field, and b)those jobs are unlikely to go to an RIT grad when there are so many highly regarded j-schools in the nation already producing too many grads for the job market.
        
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