In Society Today, the problem of rising costs of higher education evokes heated debates among the public and policy-makers. In actuality, the high costs of college education has become an impassable barrier for many people. As for many students and families living in poverty and in low income neighborhoods and homes and belonging to low-income families. In this respect, professors (Breneman & Finney, 1997) argue that students should have an opportunity to carry on their education in college depending on their academic skills and potential rather than on their financial position, social status, or other factors, such as race, cultural and background. First of all, professional specialists argue that public funding is not effective (Cabrera,
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Some students are not prepared to pay high costs for college education, even if they can afford it, because of their cultural traditions. However, cultural differences are probably the least significant compared to the high costs of college education and tuition. In addition, the high costs of living increase the costs of college education. In such a situation, a considerable part of students from low-income families is just left aside of college education because their cultural and finances won’t allow college into the …show more content…
What is more important, the lack of access to the college education because of the high costs of college education raises the problem of the growing social tension. At this point, it is important to understand that people with the higher education have better job opportunities. In addition, technologies keep progressing and education is essential to help people to keep pace with progressing technologies. As a result, in a long-run perspective, the society can be divided into two antagonistic groups: educated and non-educated people. Educated people will enjoy all benefits of using and developing new technologies, whereas non-educated people will suffer from the lack of access to new technologies and they will be marginalized in the highly technological
Some students are not prepared to pay high costs for college education, even if they can afford it, because of their cultural traditions. However, cultural differences are probably the least significant compared to the high costs of college education and tuition. In addition, the high costs of living increase the costs of college education. In such a situation, a considerable part of students from low-income families is just left aside of college education because their cultural and finances won’t allow college into the …show more content…
What is more important, the lack of access to the college education because of the high costs of college education raises the problem of the growing social tension. At this point, it is important to understand that people with the higher education have better job opportunities. In addition, technologies keep progressing and education is essential to help people to keep pace with progressing technologies. As a result, in a long-run perspective, the society can be divided into two antagonistic groups: educated and non-educated people. Educated people will enjoy all benefits of using and developing new technologies, whereas non-educated people will suffer from the lack of access to new technologies and they will be marginalized in the highly technological