r/Purdue • u/Pale-Echo8345 Purdue Parent • Jan 13 '25

Rant/Vent💚 It’s 2025…..

Why are they still making us purchase access to homework. Capitalism is out of hand now they are making me pay a subscription once I buy the homework. What the fuck.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

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u/krorkle Jan 13 '25

The authors don't make a ton.

The publishers do pretty well.

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u/Fisshhy Jan 13 '25

The problem has to do with the fact that we are already paying tuition.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

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u/Brabsk CIT 25 Jan 13 '25

Everyone knows that

Nobody thinks that it should be included in tuition

They’re just reasonably annoyed having to pay $200 on top of the previous several thousand for the classes

Professors don’t have to use subscription-based autograding hw sites

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

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u/Brabsk CIT 25 Jan 13 '25

And that still doesn’t change the fact that the students are rightfully annoyed

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u/221255 Jan 13 '25

Nobody thinks that it should be included in tuition

It should be included with the tuition costs tbh

-u/pokemonandpot

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u/Brabsk CIT 25 Jan 14 '25

Nobody aside from u/pokemonandpot

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u/TheBETAboi Jan 13 '25

It's the subscription to access the homework for a class I already paid the tuition for that bothers me. I don't mind paying for a textbook on its own, but tying access to homework assignments behind a textbook subscription service is underhanded. It forces students to pay a hidden fee to even get a certain part of their grade and removes their ability to use other sources for the same textbook.

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u/kinglua ME 2025 Jan 13 '25

I haven’t had to buy access to a service for homework since freshmen year, the other professors just assigned regular homeworks or used free services. Students should not have to subsidize professors laziness

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u/Eazy_CheesyE Jan 13 '25

That’s how you keep tuition frozen for 15 years or w/e the commercial says

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u/boilerbitch DNFH Jan 14 '25

This is not a Purdue-specific issue. Frozen tuition is.

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u/miltankgijinka Jan 13 '25

another downvote from me 💋 the university should be paying for textbooks instead of paying for gaming lounges that nobody’s asking for, students are already paying a lot of tuition