Manifesto
We r Student Nation!
Have you seen what it costs to go to college these days? Twenty, thirty – even forty grand a year? It’s practically impossible to get a degree these days without going crazy deep in debt. Twenty, thirty, forty deep – times four!
I don’t know about you but I get sticker shock whenever I add up the cost of tuition. Never mind room and board. Finding a way to pay for a four-year degree is like having to take out a second mortgage to pay for a four-seat clunker only to shuffle from job-to-job all your life in bumper-to-bumper traffic with sheepskin for plates.
Selling EDU like Detroit sells cars smacks of a multi-billion dollar endowment scam that traps millions of students to be little more than drones in a corporate hive as minds are forced to split and abandon hearts to pay the piper.
If you’re like us, you don’t relish the prospects of drowning in debt come graduation day only to fork over a tidy sum every month just for the privilege of mingling with fossil-fueled suits and sprinkling the infield with professional opinions dropouts wot from a two-minute song.
At Student Nation, we make it easy to stay afloat when it comes time to hit the books. See those share links for courses at your university? They’re not your Mama’s code. They’re sticky.
Whenever you claim a course or make a donation to Student Nation, you’ll receive a special set of links that you can share on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter to hit people up with back home and start collecting some serious coin to help pay for college – tax-free!
Pull a stunt like that with the Bursar’s office and you’d better have a good lawyer. The way we figure is if universities don’t have to pay taxes on tuition and lucrative revenue streams from popular Athletic programs like Football and Basketball, then they have no right to force students to make up the difference with higher fees, enrollment caps, and double-digit tuition hikes. We call that price-gouging at the proverbial pump deliberately designed to winnow out the haves and have nots at the blackboard.
Don’t ken us the wrong way. We love a good Hail Mary and Double Overtime as much as the next guy but we refuse to abandon a generation of hope as libraries close, Professors are furloughed, and required courses dropped.
We can’t promise you a full boat but we can promise that every time someone makes a donation to Student Nation, you get credit for their gift that you can redeem on campus. Ditto whenever someone uses your links to follow courses they take too. The more credits you earn the more courses you get to take tuition free. Now that’s an idea worth getting up for class for. Credit where credit’s due. Not some speed trap to catch a clunker.
Student Nation
Class of ‘13
