Drexel touts upscale furniture, double beds, privacy walls, full kitchens, high-definition golf simulators, and, soon, a nearby Shake Shack.
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Funny...Drexel & Temple are 2 of the ugliest campuses in the country. Anything they do at this point would be considered "upscale". Those places need all the help they can get!— kelprod2-freemarket- lasalle and saint joes are uglier than temple or drexel — the lopez!
- This bubble will too pop. Secondary education is living in a bubble. They think there is an endless supply of families willing to pay exorbitant tuition and room and board. Really, all this is being propped up by easy money from government loans. That will end, just like easy money in real estate in general ended. Then, you will see schools go belly up due to their own debt and excesses. In this age on online learning, bottom tier schools will be the first to feel the affects. The, it will hit larger quality schools like Temple and Drexel due to the kind of excess in this article. One by one, they will file for bankruptcy and rush to the government for protection. In the end, we'll have many fewer schools. What is needed to accelerate this is a shift of power to the buyers--the parents. They need to ban together to use their collective power to cut bloated administrations, stop this madness of upscale housing, tear out the never used climbing walls, and get back to reality.— PFCzar
- This comment has been deleted.— thinkforyourself
- how did you connect your rant to this story?
conservatives inbreeding and making baby thinkforyourself. YAY!!!!— the lopez! - So, recently the Inquirer posted a piece on the angst of college graduates who were working at minimum wages jobs, unable to pay their college loans, living at home, feeling depressed, and considering returning to school to increase their chances of gaining solid employment. Now, I see that lovely, upscale apartments are being offered for the new crop of students who will pay even more for their college experience, thus graduating with increased debt and probably depression because their return to living at home will not be as exciting as being in a high rise. I, for one, will not feel sorry anymore for those who fall into this trap.— Elizabeth West
- Problem is Liz that you have to fall into the trap. Are you really suggesting that people stop going to college? Employers are already complaining that the Millennial generation is ill-equipped. It would not make sense to decrease their education.
Colleges are big businesses that are going to obliterate the middle class. That I agree with. However, the solution is not telling people to forego education, but to ask these "educators" why in the world do college students need luxurious living? Should past students' tuition dollars be used to upgrade campus amenities just so a school can boast about how high-tech they are?— deerintheheadlights - Yes, college grads are having trouble finding good jobs. On the other hand, those without a college degree are having trouble finding any job at all. The pay and employment gaps between those with and without a college degree has been growing and growing. Not going to college is even a worse trap. — plugh
- The Haverford College campus has so much architectural character. It is a shame they are buying a logo name to do their new dorms. Clearly Haverford should have learned their lesson from the faux Barnes.— Earl J
- Reason for this is recession and no hiring. Things will have to get better and they better get better real fast! Nevertheless, we have to train people to take the place of people who will die, retire or be laid off in professional jobs.— Aces high
- Drexel's tuition has increased 250% in 10 years. Why? because of needless wasteful spending like "luxury dorms". How about save the luxury and charge a tuition that a family who isn't in the top 1% can afford.— Gradhospital
- Back when I was in school (and it wasn't that long ago! Only 8 years) I lived in a a dorm with cinder block walls, no AC, a 20" TV, and we had to bunk the beds to have any space to spread out at all. I turned out alright.
And nearly 1,000/student for a two bedroom apartment for college students? I pay 1150/month for my own parkside two bedroom HOUSE with parking and a yard...how do they pay for that?— DeltaV - deer in the headlights: Are you kidding me? I'm not opposed to higher education whatsoever. I don't understand how you interpreted my post in this way. I'm simply stating the obvious: that educating a student has become so ridiculously expensive, and enticing students with penthouse views and 42" TVs is just setting them up for disappointment down the road, not to mention even heavier debt.— Elizabeth West
- The college experience is not supposed to be "upscale" but sadly today it is. Plush dorms, plush gyms, plush dining halls... when you graduate your standard of living actually goes down! This is pure madness.... get back to TEACHING with a blackboard, some good books, and a bare bones dorm.— Bud Fox
Penn students are not going to want to live in this tower.
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