Hagardy

Hagardy t1_ivo4nj9 wrote

Reply to Why Phil Scott again? by rufustphish

I’m pretty sure the last time an incumbent governor lost re-election in Vermont was in 1962 when Phillip Hoth defeated Ray Keyser jr and became the first democratic governor in a century.

So, honestly Phil Scott again because we don’t elect in VT, we coronate new rulers.

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Hagardy t1_iu9ry7h wrote

Reply to comment by RandolphCarter15 in VT reporters : don't just repeat UVM admin press releases. Ask questions, like what will they cut to cover this? Will it comes from admin or teaching and student services? by RandolphCarter15

Vermont has the lowest dollar and per capita support for higher ed in the country, state contribution is something like 5% of the budget, where in other states it’s 20-40%.

This forces a reliance on tuition dollars to stay afloat, leading to heavy out of state recruitment.

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Hagardy t1_iu79317 wrote

Reply to VT reporters : don't just repeat UVM admin press releases. Ask questions, like what will they cut to cover this? Will it comes from admin or teaching and student services? by RandolphCarter15

Given that about half of Vermont students already attend tuition free, I suspect someone crunched the numbers are realized this would only be a few people but the press would be fantastic.

The bigger problem is by continuing to freeze course fees without creating alternative revenue streams class outcomes are being directly harmed. Chemistry supplies haven’t gotten any cheaper, but the fee revenue has stayed flat, same for every other class supply. Endlessly increasing costs are bad, but just not teaching things because we can’t afford to buy the basics also isn’t great. There’s a lot of smoke and mirrors or ponzi-adjacent accounting happening here until the president can get a better job at a bigger school.

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