The cost of college is rising, everybody knows that. The cost is expected to rise with inflation and the inclusion of new technology, yet what people were not expecting were the cost to soar as high as they have. In the U.S. News article "Hiring Spree Fattens College Bureaucracy—And Tuition" by Belkin and Thurm, they mention that in 1975 the average student could work 24 hours a week to pay for college; in today's world, it works out to be closer to 32 hours a week. This is not news to my peers, we hear it all the time from our parents or grandparents; where they tell us stories of how they worked one summer job and went on road trips every month and still had enough money for college with out taking out large student loans.
The biggest question on college goers minds is "Where is my tuition going?". We can see some of the usage, new technology, staff payroll, general upkeep. The president of the University of Minnesota had the same question. He used all of his power to find the answer and he mainly got shrugs. Dr. Kaler, the president of the University of Minnesota. finally got his answer in the payroll. He stated that the staff …show more content…
We in college believe that most of our money is going toward advancements and to our professors. Yet again, Dr. Kaler looked into payroll and found that in 10 years that the administration is taking up more of the payroll and the percent of payroll that is allocated to professors has dropped. Again, absurd to college goers; yet there is more to the picture than we think. Dr. Kaler comes to that conclusion too. There is a lot of fluff in the administration office and processes of the office that can be mainstreamed but there is also a lot that cannot be. One needs a bigger Marketing Department to entice more donators and more enrollees. Even big moneymakers like college live by the rule that you have to spend money to make
The biggest question on college goers minds is "Where is my tuition going?". We can see some of the usage, new technology, staff payroll, general upkeep. The president of the University of Minnesota had the same question. He used all of his power to find the answer and he mainly got shrugs. Dr. Kaler, the president of the University of Minnesota. finally got his answer in the payroll. He stated that the staff …show more content…
We in college believe that most of our money is going toward advancements and to our professors. Yet again, Dr. Kaler looked into payroll and found that in 10 years that the administration is taking up more of the payroll and the percent of payroll that is allocated to professors has dropped. Again, absurd to college goers; yet there is more to the picture than we think. Dr. Kaler comes to that conclusion too. There is a lot of fluff in the administration office and processes of the office that can be mainstreamed but there is also a lot that cannot be. One needs a bigger Marketing Department to entice more donators and more enrollees. Even big moneymakers like college live by the rule that you have to spend money to make