Budget cuts to high schools, tuition rises, and the few colleges that were free are forced to add tuition. The Ivory Tower made a very important statement: colleges have started this battle to make the biggest and best campus they can. That should not be the focus of any college, a student should not need an Olympic pool or fancy buildings. In my opinion, a good college provides top notch professors that are the leaders in their subjects and tuition should be high enough for the college to maintain a profit, but without putting the students in an insane level of debt. Even though I am a freshman, I have already felt crushed by the weight of how much debt I will have to pay back concerning I am in for nine years of college. My father talks about how when he was a child he could take a quarter to get ice cream at the local shop. Yet, in this age something as simple as frozen milk costs $1.00. On the other end of the spectrum, something as priceless as an education is becoming something that cannot be afforded. Something that separates humans from animals, education, is quickly becoming something for the
Budget cuts to high schools, tuition rises, and the few colleges that were free are forced to add tuition. The Ivory Tower made a very important statement: colleges have started this battle to make the biggest and best campus they can. That should not be the focus of any college, a student should not need an Olympic pool or fancy buildings. In my opinion, a good college provides top notch professors that are the leaders in their subjects and tuition should be high enough for the college to maintain a profit, but without putting the students in an insane level of debt. Even though I am a freshman, I have already felt crushed by the weight of how much debt I will have to pay back concerning I am in for nine years of college. My father talks about how when he was a child he could take a quarter to get ice cream at the local shop. Yet, in this age something as simple as frozen milk costs $1.00. On the other end of the spectrum, something as priceless as an education is becoming something that cannot be afforded. Something that separates humans from animals, education, is quickly becoming something for the