Is a college education really beneficial? Controversial question without context as higher education is pushed to students of all ages in this day and age. However, the need for that question stems from the inadequacy of higher education today. Unfortunately there is an abundance of issues throughout Colleges and Universities in the United States. These issues range from untrained professors to apathetic students who are okay with scraping by living by the motto “C’s get degrees” as long as they can party. Underlying these issues also lay problems with tenure as it is not offered to teachers who truly deserve but instead the path to tenure is open to those who do the most research. These issues range from an overpricing of an incomplete education,
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According to the CNBC “Why Does a College Degree Cost so Much” by John W Schoen, education at a 4 year public university has risen about 80% since 1992 while privates have risen about 110%. College is referred to as the great equalizer all over throughout the United States and, once again referring to Declining by Degrees, ever since the Regan year’s people realized that one can take advantage of higher education to get ahead economically. This led to the decision that the burden of pay for college should fall on the citizens. This could seem reasonable when education didn’t sell at today’s rates, but it is no longer a viable option. The explanation as for the rise in cost seems fogy when in obvert that the quality of that education hasn’t really improved, if anything it has decreased. Nonetheless, the money has to be going somewhere. In an effort to compete for the students, or in other words, customers universities and colleges have come to invest in state of the art gyms and facilities to be used as selling points as seen in Declining by Degrees. Furthermore, while sports are a well of wealth for universities it is also a vacuum. Declining by Degrees describes a situation where coaches are paid ludicrous salaries as long as they bring in publicity for the schools, the schools ensure that the teams have up to date gyms in which to practice along with stadiums to rival that of professional teams. Nevertheless, “teaching salaries, one of the biggest single line items, have remained relatively flat” according to Schoen’s “Why Does a College Degree Cost so Much. It is evident that once again, universities invest more into what gives them recognition rather than worrying for the teachers who are in charge of the education, the core and what should be the main goal of a university. The reality of all of this seems to be very grim for higher education
According to the CNBC “Why Does a College Degree Cost so Much” by John W Schoen, education at a 4 year public university has risen about 80% since 1992 while privates have risen about 110%. College is referred to as the great equalizer all over throughout the United States and, once again referring to Declining by Degrees, ever since the Regan year’s people realized that one can take advantage of higher education to get ahead economically. This led to the decision that the burden of pay for college should fall on the citizens. This could seem reasonable when education didn’t sell at today’s rates, but it is no longer a viable option. The explanation as for the rise in cost seems fogy when in obvert that the quality of that education hasn’t really improved, if anything it has decreased. Nonetheless, the money has to be going somewhere. In an effort to compete for the students, or in other words, customers universities and colleges have come to invest in state of the art gyms and facilities to be used as selling points as seen in Declining by Degrees. Furthermore, while sports are a well of wealth for universities it is also a vacuum. Declining by Degrees describes a situation where coaches are paid ludicrous salaries as long as they bring in publicity for the schools, the schools ensure that the teams have up to date gyms in which to practice along with stadiums to rival that of professional teams. Nevertheless, “teaching salaries, one of the biggest single line items, have remained relatively flat” according to Schoen’s “Why Does a College Degree Cost so Much. It is evident that once again, universities invest more into what gives them recognition rather than worrying for the teachers who are in charge of the education, the core and what should be the main goal of a university. The reality of all of this seems to be very grim for higher education