Texas schools pushing to make Gov. Rick Perry's vision for $10,000 bachelor's degrees a reality

Compiled by Celia Baker, Deseret News

Published: Saturday, Dec. 1 2012 2:20 p.m. MST

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Governor Rick Perry, of Texas, called for his state's higher education institutions to come up with bachelor's degree programs costing $10,000 or less in 2011, and 10 schools have responded.

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LVIS

Salt Lake City, UT

Midwest Mom
Soldiers Grove, WI
"Republicans are very good at coming up with utopian ideas without producing the hows, whys and wherefores"

Did I read that correctly? Republicans? Unlike, oh, Barney Frank and 'housing More..

10:36 p.m. Dec. 1, 2012
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junkgeek

Agua Dulce, TX

So ... degrees in nothing, leading to nothing jobs.

3:37 p.m. Dec. 1, 2012
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Howard Beal

Provo, UT

I like the concept. Get professors teaching more classes, tighten belts, streamline programs. I'm not sure why a college education at a state university needs to be $50,000 or more. Put the bar at 10K and MAKE the colleges figure how to make More..

3:49 p.m. Dec. 1, 2012
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