1. What have been the effects of the privatization of public higher education? Have you been personally affected?
The effects of privatization have been to weaken the state school systems. The weakening has had the effect of decreasing the quality of education that can be obtained from a higher education state university. This change happened when the state tax deduction was reduced on the federal tax return. The states then began to work to transfer the cost of education to the students and parents instead of paying out of state coffers. Faculty salaries have fallen compared to private universities and the private sector. The result has been to substitute the part-time and full-time non-tenure track faculty for full time tenure track …show more content…
How does your own experience influence your views about education and public finance policies?
I believe that higher education is a right that is to be provided by the state. I believe that the state is required to provide an opportunity for a well-funded and quality education for each resident in the state that they reside in. I believe that if student loans are the way that money has to be obtained to attend college then these loans should be capped at 2-3% per year in interest.
My second daughter has debt. The loan rate the she has is near 7%. This is a significant rate of interest. The bank holding the loan made a mistake when she decided not to attend a private school and to attend a public school. Though she had been accepted at Bryant University she calculated the cost of a state based university and chose to attend UMass Dartmouth. The problem is that the bank made a mistake on the loan and began charging for the loan. Since a bank runs the program you cannot work with the school to resolve errors. I believe the universities should run the finance end of the university cost. That way, the interest and funds would flow through the …show more content…
I am paid much less than a comparable position in industry. In a private university there may not be a comparable position for me. The number of students I contact is fairly high. I average 25 students in each of my classes. These facts seem match well with those mentioned by Mr. Ehrenberg (2005).
3. Which of your views on educational opportunity do you believe to be true regardless of research evidence?
This is a strange question. Depending on what topic I might choose it seems that there is probably qualitative evidence to argue both sides of the position I could choose on educational opportunity. I will choose to take the stance that public university education should be funded by the state in which the university resides. The legislators and the executive branches within the states seem to all be taking the stance that the individual, and their families, are responsible for funding the education of the children.
The situation that the government then imposes on the student is one that is the result of near criminal action in the placement of debt on the youth that are currently in universities. The amount of debt that a student starts life with is now devastating and changing the structure of the family unit requiring students to live at home for many more years than ever before
The effects of privatization have been to weaken the state school systems. The weakening has had the effect of decreasing the quality of education that can be obtained from a higher education state university. This change happened when the state tax deduction was reduced on the federal tax return. The states then began to work to transfer the cost of education to the students and parents instead of paying out of state coffers. Faculty salaries have fallen compared to private universities and the private sector. The result has been to substitute the part-time and full-time non-tenure track faculty for full time tenure track …show more content…
How does your own experience influence your views about education and public finance policies?
I believe that higher education is a right that is to be provided by the state. I believe that the state is required to provide an opportunity for a well-funded and quality education for each resident in the state that they reside in. I believe that if student loans are the way that money has to be obtained to attend college then these loans should be capped at 2-3% per year in interest.
My second daughter has debt. The loan rate the she has is near 7%. This is a significant rate of interest. The bank holding the loan made a mistake when she decided not to attend a private school and to attend a public school. Though she had been accepted at Bryant University she calculated the cost of a state based university and chose to attend UMass Dartmouth. The problem is that the bank made a mistake on the loan and began charging for the loan. Since a bank runs the program you cannot work with the school to resolve errors. I believe the universities should run the finance end of the university cost. That way, the interest and funds would flow through the …show more content…
I am paid much less than a comparable position in industry. In a private university there may not be a comparable position for me. The number of students I contact is fairly high. I average 25 students in each of my classes. These facts seem match well with those mentioned by Mr. Ehrenberg (2005).
3. Which of your views on educational opportunity do you believe to be true regardless of research evidence?
This is a strange question. Depending on what topic I might choose it seems that there is probably qualitative evidence to argue both sides of the position I could choose on educational opportunity. I will choose to take the stance that public university education should be funded by the state in which the university resides. The legislators and the executive branches within the states seem to all be taking the stance that the individual, and their families, are responsible for funding the education of the children.
The situation that the government then imposes on the student is one that is the result of near criminal action in the placement of debt on the youth that are currently in universities. The amount of debt that a student starts life with is now devastating and changing the structure of the family unit requiring students to live at home for many more years than ever before