College Tuition Crisis Research Paper

College tuition crisis College tuition has gotten more and more expensive throughout the years and it's gotten to the point to where families cannot afford to pay for it anymore. Students are living in debt and they don't have enough money to get through the schooling for a job so they couldn’t pay it off if they wanted to making it so they are broke. College has gotten so expensive that families simply can't pay for it a writer for the New York Times named Adam Davison stated “When accessibility to higher education declines, we all end up paying for it.” means that when kids are in debt then don't get proper education it's our faults for not making it affordable and now we have the problem of welfare and unemployment Adam also …show more content…
Colleges need to compete with other colleges in order to get students attending their schools and how do they do that you might ask ? by using things like gyms for students and fancy door rooms so kids well like to attended. Colleges need to look nice and presentable but everything comes with a cost to make the college standout and they pay that off with the money that you give them in schooling. Tayven P. is a student in montana said in a letter to the president “Universities need more of our money so they could cover the cost of flashy stadium like colleges”. The sad part about this statement its horrific because of the truth behind it and colleges don't only raise prices of things like door rooms and books but they rely on you to pay for it so then they won’t be in debt themselves. So what are some ways to not have to pay these large amounts of money and not live in debt? One easy thing you could do is not go away for college and making a commute. A commute is when the student decides to stay home for college and not pay for the extra basic essentials you would need by living on a campus such as meal plans and door rooms. A door room can cost as much as ten thousand dollars not counting the extra meal plans books and others. You can save up to twenty thousand dollars just by living at home and staying in state. Another reason it's better to stay instate is because the state doesn’t want you to leave the state because then it …show more content…
But there's a problem with free college as well when you have free college kids won't take it seriously and on top of that the class credibility will change tremendously and what the professors teach you because when a college is free it's like high school and students won't take it seriously so the college won't pay for high-end professors and waste their time and money. Another reason free college is a bad thing is because that would result into the government to pay for the schooling which the government gets the money from our taxes which means we’d still be paying for college anyways just instead for multiple other people instead of paying for yourself. Zielixo Kiren says “Class quuality will suffer. More and more students will flood into universities, which already have massive class sizes”.which is another valid statement because then that way colleges would have to just hire more faculty which would end up costing more money and taxes