Originally posted by complaint_hopeful
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Driving 45 to 55 minutes each way is absolutely prohibitive. Not spending 55 minutes commuting into a city through rush hour traffic. Sure some people will do it but that's also going to take its toll on a car plus the added cost of a lot of gas. If that drive isn't interstate (such as Clarion, PA to Bradford or Indiana) the gas mileage isn't going to be great and winter travel could get iffy.
Again, rural PA is not signing up for online school because they have such crappy access to high speed internet. My mother in law has to switch her phone from wifi to data to Facetime my kids. Plus
Average net price for a commuter PASSHE student vs Online Universities:
PASSHE: $10,396
SNHU: $41,722
U Phoenix: $15,009
I agree that more money isn't coming anytime soon. Some campuses have some buildings that need work and they're wondering if the money the state promised them years ago will ever come for that work. I also think throwing money at it is kicking the can down the road. The only way they're going to see big reductions in cost is through wildly unpopular decisions. They either make big cuts that are potentially unpopular with students (cutting services, cutting athletics, consolidating programs) or they make some internal structural changes (exempting these schools from the union contracts).
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