05-08-2013, 01:49 AM
$tevie wrote:
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I paid $4.50/quarter credit hour. Plus fees, etc. At State U in 1968.
And take home pay was like $53 a week for a student working a summer job and earning minimum wage. It's all relative.
I worked construction during the summer and saved well over $1k which was enough to pay tuition and room and board. I don't remember my hourly wage...
It's just that pulling a figure out of the air with no context seems rather pointless. Ground beef was 39 cents a pound when I was in college, but that number by itself is kind of a so what. You need to compare cost per credit with income of the era, in which case we would see that college credit costs have skyrocketed. Otherwise we're just old fartts discussing the days of yore.
$6.25/quarter credit hour similar vintage at perennial NCAA basketball champion... first "college" job at Mickey D's was $1.75/hr to start... moved up to book bagger at student bookstore for $2.35/hr... by mid 70's while working on masters, tuition had doubled, but by then had scored best student job in rec services for about $6.00/hr... base was $4.83/hr, and I always worked Sundays which was time and half, usually a ten or eleven hour shift, w/ the overage above eight hours at double time, so that helped boost the weekly average. Tuition doubled, student job wages more than tripled. I did have non-student jobs throughout that paid more during yore, but that's the out of context comparison. Yore was good while it lasted. Skyrocket's red glare is no joke; Baby Buzz's hoity toity high school tuition is more in a month than the first five of my nearly seven years of college totaled (month after month after month). His pending college is even downright scarier. Old fartdom, having days of yore to discuss, seems to merely be a reflection on yore's advantages...
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