Idea Bank: Cost reduction strategies

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First, the idea of driving the cost of a residential education down via digital media is very compelling. Shortening the time spent in formal "college" would help many families for whom college is not a viable alternative due to financial constraints...

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Fixed tuition costs burden students with debt and cause them to make poor long term choices. I know too many people who have taken jobs (and eventually, careers) that they don't love because they feel the pressure of their student loan debt. These...

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I am writing as an alum, an employee at Lincoln Laboratory, and as a parent with 5 children--all of whom hope to afford college.

The information age has been defined by technology improving the ability to communicate and understand information...

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Having recently completed work as co-chair of an innovation task force at my university, I'll toss out a few things that didn't make it into the task force's report:

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I would model my proposed college, which I call “CostCo U”, after a law firm. Just as senior lawyers own the firm and delegate out various administrative responsibilities, I would have a college where faculty own the institution, and administrators...

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Through my academic and medical life I observed that the subject matter experts are not necessary the best teachers or speakers.

We have the opportunity to transform the academic experience of the students and the faculty if we give each one...

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The edX model has a lot of promise for the future, but so far it does not completely replace an on-campus MIT education. I see at least three crucial areas where the on-campus approach still holds a major advantage:

1) Student-to-student...

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MIT should commit to ensuring that its students can leave the Institvte debt-free.

The cost of higher education is skyrocketing at a rate much faster than inflation, while median incomes are stagnating. MIT's tuition and costs, which have...

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Everyone knows that the old, single-pane windows in the main group are energy sinks, yet replacement is not cheap. I would like to propose a fund raising campaign to fix this. At Brown University, sections of the fence surrounding the campus are named...

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Either this new idea bank is superior infrastructure for this type of discussion, or the existing MIT Idea Bank at http://ideabank.mit.edu/ideas is, but either way--consolidate to share one infrastructure...

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