Texas A&M Commerce University President Dan Jones (pictured here) committed
suicide on April 29, 2016. The school made this information public on Friday.
President Jones had been treated earlier in April for depression.
Days before he took his life, he wrote to the campus
community: “Stress makes everything worse, taking a toll on body, mind and
spirit. We all know how stressful university life can be, for students, faculty
and staff alike, and I urge all of you who are dealing with stressful
challenges in your life to get the rest and help you need.”
Meanwhile, with college costs so high, campus administrators
are easy targets for verbal assaults. Gov. Rauner has been vocal about this
matter, suggesting that administrators at UIUC are part of the cost problem at
the flagship school.
This charge is easy to make, and readily appeals to angry students,
parents, and taxpayers—but misses a much bigger point that actually supports
Gov. Rauner’s concerns about structural costs imposed by excessive government regulation.
Consider this excerpt from Inside Higher Ed:
Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos earlier
this year testified before a U.S. Senate committee and cited a rather
compelling, if somewhat surprising, fact: the cost of complying with federal
regulations “equates to approximately $11,000 in additional tuition per year”
for students.
The math was simple: $146 million in compliance costs in 2013
divided by some 12,800 students equals about $11,000 per student.”
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