Comments on: Not all private colleges and universities are cheaper than public http://sundial.csun.edu/2012/05/study-that-showed-csu-cheaper-than-harvard-inaccurate/ Breaking CSUN news and information. Mon, 13 May 2013 07:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Matt Krupnick http://sundial.csun.edu/2012/05/study-that-showed-csu-cheaper-than-harvard-inaccurate/comment-page-1/#comment-65536 Matt Krupnick Tue, 08 May 2012 19:01:00 +0000 http://sundial.csun.edu/?p=52661#comment-65536 Thank you for saving me the work of writing the same letter myself. As the reporter who wrote the San Jose Mercury News article (after spending months researching the topic), I was baffled by the Sundial’s article.

I’m requesting an immediate correction to your headline. You can’t have a headline saying my “study” was inaccurate at the same time you have the following line in your story: “While the paper’s calculations are correct, the details behind the figures have individuals within California’s higher education system puzzled.”Fredy, if you’re confused about my stories in the future, I welcome you to give me a call at my office and I’ll walk you through the issue. If I’m thinking of the right person, I believe you and I talked for about two minutes, and you never mentioned any of this confusion. 

]]> By: perspixx http://sundial.csun.edu/2012/05/study-that-showed-csu-cheaper-than-harvard-inaccurate/comment-page-1/#comment-65529 perspixx Tue, 08 May 2012 07:52:00 +0000 http://sundial.csun.edu/?p=52661#comment-65529 Wow, I’ve read some horrible articles in the Sundial but this train wreck could be one of the worst ever.

Error 1 is in the headline: “Study that showed CSU cheaper than Harvard found inaccurate”
–Um, actually, the article in the Mercury News was stating the opposite.

Error 2: The article only mentions the part of the study that found that Harvard cheaper than UC Santa Cruz, which is not part of the CSU system.

Error 3: Article says the study was published ‘last March’. No, it was published this March.

Error 4: Article states that the cost for UC Santa Cruz is $19,500; no, that’s UC Berkeley. The Mercury News article states that UC Santa Cruz would cost $33,000.

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