Remember the GI Bill? Remember when tuition was free

[Cleita]

in state colleges and universities if you kept your grades up? I attended college with Korean vets. They got $108 a month. Tuition was free. With a part time job, they could put themselves through college, get a degree and move into the workaday world with a profession.

Did anyone on DU get their education this way. What happened?

[underpants]

1. My GI Bill (90's) only gave me money didn't pay tuition

$705 a month or something like that.

[Cleita]

3. I don't think it paid tuition, but in California anyway higher

education tuitions were waived for residents and of course you had to keep your grades up. Labs, books and other fees, you had to pay for.

[Medical Speaking]

2. GI Bill

I went to College on the GI Bill in the 60"s And most of the costs were paid by the GI bill. I would have not went to college if it had not been for that bill.

A Viet-Nam Vet

[Sir Craig]

4. Currently tuition is paid by the military

At least it is for me - my tuition is completely paid, but that may only apply to active duty personnel.

I still have to pay for the books, though. Damn, those things have gotten more expensive.

[beyurslf]

5. State tuition should be paid for every under grad at a public school.

The middle class kids are the ones who get screwed the worst here and the poor to a lesser extent. The poor will usually qualify for grants but it isn't always enough. Middle class kids have to take out loans and go deep into debt. It may be worth it but it is hard to see that climbing out of 50K in school loans and graduating without a job.

[sandnsea]

8. Grants, $3600

Doesn't begin to cover it. EVERYBODY has to take out loans to go to college.

[TahitiNut]

6. The Vietnam-era GI Bill ...

... didn't cover anything near the expenses of the WW2-era GI Bill. My uncle went to Michigan State University after WW2, getting a Master's in PoliSci in 4 years magna cum laude, and all of his expenses were covered, even as a married man in married housing. I did my post-graduate work after Viet Nam at one of the least expensive universities (WSU in Detroit) and it didn't quite cover my tuition and fees, let alone books and miscellany.

[jobendorfer]

7. I'm too young, but here's some anecdotal evidence

I've been taking general physics this last year. Last quarter,
I took the electricity & magnetism segment from a fine old gent
who did his Ph.D work at UC Berkeley back in the early 1960s.

Once, when the topic of graduate school tuition came up, he
mentioned that he paid $50/semester while getting his Ph.D.
(4 years of full time grad study at a top-tier school for
$400!) -- "... I have no idea how kids do it today."

By way of comparison, I am paying ~$350/quarter for a 5-credit
science course at a community college -- and counting myself
lucky to get it at that price.

J.

[Cleita]

9. You can thank the Republicans for that.

I should really research this, but it seems what I remember is that a lot of the benefits once given to the universities and state colleges so that all qualified students could get an education, regardless of their circumstances, were peeled away starting with the Reagan governorship.

Now, as you say kids have to go into awful debt to get an education. When I went to college, I don't think there were student loans for undergraduates because for the most part you could get by if you were dedicated because your tuition was free.

Even so I envied the vets because they got that extra help the rest of us didn't.