http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/11/paying-for-the-lottery-shortfall-smaller-scholarships Comments On: Paying for the lottery shortfall — smaller scholarships by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
It was sold as a way to get more students into college.

Everyone knew it would be a freebie to the upperclasses that were going to college anyway.

Everyone knows that lesser amounts in the first year will not help any poor get started, not help much to increase the middle class to get started.

So the group that was going to graduate without the assistance will get the most assistance.

The group that needed the most assistance to get started will get the least.

Welcome to the New Republican World, motto is "Them that has, gets!"
Posted by Citizen1]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:17:09 -0600 Arkansas Times
Even when I was teaching more than thirty years ago there were millions of unused scholarship and grant dollars. The reason?

They were in small amounts.

If a student accepted one of those small amounts, s/he was not eligible for another with larger amounts. Or, conversely, if a student accepted one of the larger amounts, s/he was not eligible for an additional one with smaller amounts.

Result? The smaller-amount scholarships and grants went un-awarded and the money simply sat in banks.

Reducing the amounts of the lottery scholarhips to spread them around to more people will contribute to about the same result: They won't be large enough to do the job by themselves but they will disqualify recipients for other awards. So the award recipients won't be able actually to accept the money and use it to go to school; they won't go to school and the money will be left sitting--much to the delight of the banks and program administrators who will still collect THEIR benefits!

IMHO
Posted by SkyPilot]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:01:55 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mountaingirl]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:39:51 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Citizen1]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:30:11 -0600 Arkansas Times
>>The community colleges ought to have pre-engineering programs, but most of them do not.

Do you have any idea of how hard it is to hire faculty for those programs. I know a former dept head for UA engineering. He said repeatedly that many colleges and universities will have difficult time in the coming years hiring engineering proffs/instructors. They're simply too valuable in industry. Schools in the South spend outlandish sums on atheletics and have no idea of what engineering proffs are worth.

Same with nursing school staffs. Difficult to find teachers/professors because hospitals and private clinics will pay them so well.

Think a shift in priorities is coming? But, rest assured, we'll wait until it reaches crisis levels to plan and act.
Posted by eLwood]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:30:13 -0600 Arkansas Times
Giving someone 2000 when they need 3000 thousand and have no way to get the extra money means they won't be going to college. Any idiot knows it would be better to give fewer kids the full sum of money needed to attend college than it would to give the same number less money.....less money that will mean damn few of them will manage to attend college.

5000 kids getting the full scholarship is a hell of a lot better than 10 thousand not getting enough. It's the best plan I've heard of to make sure college enrollment will go way down in the near future. I know that idea gives every Republican an erection and probably a lot of pretend Democrats too. But it's perhaps the surest way to keep Arkansas dead last in all good things for the remainder of the 21st century.

We'll never be Connecticut, but aren't you all sick to death of being the clone of Mississippi and Alabama century after century?
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:42:48 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Ozark Homesteader]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:44:08 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Goof]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:09:43 -0600 Arkansas Times
Read in Arkansas Bidness today that both UALR and the UofA’s Fedvul branch are experiencing a surge of students enrolling in engineering programs.

http://goo.gl/EcpgE

Think that’s great news!
Posted by Durango]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:39:35 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by dxdhzd]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:13:22 -0600 Arkansas Times
Thus, students will not be able to take all of the courses that they need, and they will also probably take a lot of courses they don't need if they start at a community college and then transfer to a university to study engineering.

The community colleges ought to have pre-engineering programs, but most of them do not.
Posted by Hume N. Bien]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:00:10 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Hume N. Bien]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:49:15 -0600 Arkansas Times
Way to go, Arkansas, we don't need educated people. Just look how well we have done with the current group of uneducated rubes running the state, violating the Constitution, members violating the church and state separation that Jefferson wanted, and acting like the American version of the Taliban but without the loveable characteristics.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:23:18 -0600 Arkansas Times
IMHO
Posted by SkyPilot]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:03:57 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by flyairplanes]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:33:27 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:20:53 -0600 Arkansas Times