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May 7, 2019
Title: Should your Student go to College?
Topic: College Affordability
Discussed by Dr. Thomas Lindsay
with Texas Public Policy Foundation (www.TexasPolicy.com)
Part 1 of 2
Dr. Thomas Lindsay, a former college President, says: “Go to a
cheap college – or none at all”. He is the current Director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Innovation in Education and a Senior Constitutional Scholar. He has more than twenty years of experience in education management and instruction.
Questions/Issues Discussed:
Why does Dr. Thomas Lindsay believe a cheap college or no college is best?
Does Enterprise Rent a Car employ more recent college graduates than almost any other company in America?
Do too many college students quit after two years?
Do apprentice programs and trade schools offer many of the same life-skills that colleges do? What are the pros and cons? Tune in to the next segment for more on this!
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Title: Part 2 of 2 - Should your Student go to College?
Topic: College Affordability
Discussed by Dr. Thomas Lindsay
with Texas Public Policy Foundation (www.TexasPolicy.com)
Questions/Issues Discussed:
Should high schools do more to teach basic responsibility and functioning
skills?
How can a parent, or a student, determine if a tech school or an apprenticeship
program would be better than a four-year college?
Can a person succeed in life without a college degree?
FACT: In the 1970’s, a college degree only took 16% of a
family’s income. Today, a college degree takes 36% of a family’s income! That
increase is insane!
Do Texas schools offer many apprentice programs in high school? Dr. Lindsay
suggests asking your high school counselor for information on Career and
Technical Education courses as an alternative to college.
To read the article by James Pierson and Naomi Schaefer Riley on this subject,
click
here.
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March 6, 2019
Title: College Costs & Benefits
Topic: College Affordability
Discussed by Dr. Thomas Lindsay
with Texas Public Policy Foundation (www.TexasPolicy.com)
Part 1 of 2
College tuition has become completely unaffordable for the majority
of students. Dr. Thomas Lindsay has details about HB277,
the Informed Student Document Act.
You can read Dr. Lindsay’s article
here.
Questions/Issues Discussed:
Exactly how much money is owed in student debt in America?
Why is it imperative that parents and students be given a price comparison of
colleges? Is this a positive step forward? What hoops must students and parents
jump through just to get this information currently?
Why should ALL colleges be required to show the return rate of students from
year to year?
Tune in to the next segment as Dr. Thomas Lindsay discusses the importance of
students choosing a major before college and attending a school that has a
successful job placement rate in that field of study.
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Title: Part 2 of 2 - College Costs & Benefits
Topic: College Affordability
Discussed by Dr. Thomas Lindsay
with Texas Public Policy Foundation (www.TexasPolicy.com)
Questions/Issues Discussed:
Why should students choose a major before choosing a college?
Should they also ask the college for job placement statistics for that area of
study?
How many student loans are in delinquency, forbearance, or forgiveness?
HINT: It’s a lot!
Should colleges be more open and honest with parents and students?
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January 31, 2019
Title: Making College Affordable
Topic: College Affordability
Discussed by Dr. Thomas Lindsay
with Texas Public Policy Foundation (www.TexasPolicy.com)
Part 1 of 3
Texas must continue to innovate and provide cost-effective, high-quality education that meets the needs of an ever-changing global economy while providing greater opportunity and prosperity for Texans.
To make college more affordable for more Texans, each public university should have at least one bachelor’s degree under the
Affordable Baccalaureate Program.
How can we achieve this? Dr. Thomas Lindsay has some solutions…
Questions/Issues Discussed:
Do college students need more affordable degree options?
What are $10,000 degrees, or Affordable Baccalaureate Programs? Listen as Dr. Lindsay explains when they started and who started them…
Where was the first Affordable Baccalaureate Program offered?
How many colleges and universities across Texas now offer these affordable degrees?
How does the program work?
Can past experience like the military or online courses give participants a head start in the program?
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Title: Part 2 of 3 - Making College Affordable
Topic: College Affordability
Discussed by Dr. Thomas Lindsay
with Texas Public Policy Foundation (www.TexasPolicy.com)
Questions/Issues Discussed:
Which colleges have been successful with the Affordable Baccalaureate
Program?
What degrees are offered through the program?
What is the current average cost to attend a public college/university in Texas?
Dr. Lindsay reveals an outrageous number that doesn’t even include room and
board. Listen in!
Is the program solely online or will participants be required to live on campus
for a short time and/or take in-class courses?
Why is the program so successful?
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Title: Part 3 of 3 - Making College Affordable
Topic: College Affordability
Discussed by Dr. Thomas Lindsay
with Texas Public Policy Foundation (www.TexasPolicy.com)
Questions/Issues Discussed:
Should the Affordable Baccalaureate Program be expanded to every
college/university in Texas?
Listen as Dr. Lindsay offers an amazing statistic from the Texas State Technical
College Chancellor, Michael Reeser.
What are the obstacles keeping these programs at bay?
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