• howrar@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      Then the university should get more money. But in this case, they’re getting less. The government is mandating that they increase tuition so that the extra money can be funneled to other schools.

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      9 months ago

      5 year old computer needs replaced

      You might be on the wrong website, buddy.

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      9 months ago

      Yeaaah, no. You are overblowing the costs. And it has absolutely decreased the cost of running a university.

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        9 months ago

        I’ve got a family member who’s a level 2 Canada research chair and professor. During COVID I was asking about the move to virtual learning and how they were set up for it, they were telling me that a much larger portion of her grant money who’s going to technology then before and it had started a few years earlier.

        Now this prof does some crazy stuff with brain scanning and virtual reality which takes some horsepower and probably needs more upgrades than your typical university computer lab. But the point remains their budgets were being strained 5 plus years ago because of the technology that’s been incorporated into teaching.

        I’m inclined to believe that the relative costs of operating a university theatre have risen rather than dropped since I graduated 20 years ago.