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   Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 16:39:10 JST Madeleine Morris

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   Having taught at University level for 15 years, I have always found it disgusting that students are forced into a lifetime of debt to educate themselves.

   Yes, a degree can help with your career, and enhance your life individually, it also contributes greatly to the collective intellectual wealth of the community you live in.

   It should be affordable and accessible to all who want it.

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     Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 16:39:11 JST Madeleine Morris

     The silver lining of what is happening at Columbia (and sure to happen either publicly or quietly at other US institutions) is that it will erode the often undeserved reputations of US Universities as premier learning/research institutions.

     They are over-priced and often the degrees are more status symbols than any measure of a scholar’s worth.

     Students of the world… there are excellent universities all over Europe. Attend one.

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