It seems extreme to me for a school to award ALL incoming students with free tuition. As great as that sounds, tuition pays for professor salaries, school libraries and other much-needed resources. Who pays the bill?
I think an even better idea is to encourage newly-graduated medical and law (and other professional school) students to work in under-served, under-privileged locations, and after a predetermined amount of time working in these areas (granted, for a substantially lower salary than the "high powered" jobs)...the remainder of their school loan debt is forgiven!
This seems like the best of both worlds to me: encouraging new graduates to work in less-desirable environments that they would not have ordinarily volunteered for. These students can gain valuable work and life experience, give back to their community, earn a salary, practice their new profession, and be rewarded with no school debt (we're talkin' hundreds of thousands of dollars forgiven!!)
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It seems extreme to me for a school to award ALL incoming students with free tuition. As great as that sounds, tuition pays for professor salaries, school libraries and other much-needed resources. Who pays the bill?
I think an even better idea is to encourage newly-graduated medical and law (and other professional school) students to work in under-served, under-privileged locations, and after a predetermined amount of time working in these areas (granted, for a substantially lower salary than the "high powered" jobs)...the remainder of their school loan debt is forgiven!
This seems like the best of both worlds to me: encouraging new graduates to work in less-desirable environments that they would not have ordinarily volunteered for. These students can gain valuable work and life experience, give back to their community, earn a salary, practice their new profession, and be rewarded with no school debt (we're talkin' hundreds of thousands of dollars forgiven!!)
May 15, 2008 - 1:29pmThis Comment
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