...as much as we enjoy your tuition. |
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/11/12/scrutiny-californians-u-oregon
If you go to that post, you will find a link to a longer article about those Southern Californians:
SoCal students and other out-of-staters
come from families who can write a check for their children to attend
because families on federal grants couldn’t assemble the money to cover
the comparatively steep out-of-state tuition, said Roger Thompson, UO
vice president for enrollment management. Some of the newcomers are not as serious
about school as their Oregon classmates who attend college by piecing
together federal grants, loans and part-time jobs, said a UO junior from
Oregon, Brandi Gardner. It’s an attitude, Gardner said. “Cs get degrees," she said. “It’s a
pretty popular motto for people who are here to get the degree so they
can get the job and don’t want to work that hard for it.” The saying irritates Gardner and best
friend Kristi Carr, a junior also from Oregon who pays for school in
part by working the front desk at the Econo Lodge on Sixth Avenue... The pair said they can see why it’s good
for the UO to recruit students from California, because they pay three
times as much tuition as in-state students and they spend a lot of money
in the community...
Full story at http://www.registerguard.com/web/updates/28969094-47/students-university-oregon-thompson-enrollment.html.csp
Of course, maybe what has gone wrong is that the Southern Californians aren't used to all that Oregon rain:
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