In colleges over the United States, students are not able to fulfill their educational dreams. In the United States, tuition costs, for colleges, are pretty expensive. Even going to a public small college is costly enough for a student. Most students are not able to afford the tuition because they do not have a job to get the money from. In order to pay it the tuition, they have to make sacrifices. Sacrifices like not being able to live in a house or apartment, making them homeless. Housing just adds up to their costs for college and pushes the students into money debt. Colleges need to be able to provide help to those students in money debt issues.
Students are failing classes because of money debt. They don’t have a place to study privately …show more content…
Instead, they are making money off students and using it for their own benefits or making it publicly look like a good school. Projects like remodeling, expanding a building, or buying more technology and books. In Homeless on Campus, Eleanor J. Bader writes that Jenn Hecker, an organizing director of the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness, blames rising housing costs for the problem and cites a 2003 survey that found the median wage needed to pay for a two-bedroom apartment in the United States to be $15.21, nearly three times the federal minimum (Bader 694). Colleges should instead be focusing on working on fixing money debt issues with students. This brings me to the first …show more content…
Colleges could provide basic housing for the students, that wouldn’t include all the benefits paid housing would have. This would just be one room and it could have a place to cook, a bed, and a desk to study and do homework on. For colleges that don’t have dorms at all, they could accomplish some sort of deal with an apartment or shelter nearby for the students that are homeless. “. . . Homeless students often drop out or fail classes because no one knows of their plight” (Bader 696). While the colleges keep track of a student’s address, colleges never publicly tell professors that a student is homeless. Colleges should identify the student as homeless if they do not present any real housing proof every semester or any other evidence that is found. This would be enough for students who are in bad money debt situations and it would allow them to get a job, pay for school and have a place to stay. If they used it for students, it would benefit the schools in many ways. The school would be known as a good place to study as a result of this. The school would become popular for students looking for a place to study from the area. It would also attract students from other areas and different
Students are failing classes because of money debt. They don’t have a place to study privately …show more content…
Instead, they are making money off students and using it for their own benefits or making it publicly look like a good school. Projects like remodeling, expanding a building, or buying more technology and books. In Homeless on Campus, Eleanor J. Bader writes that Jenn Hecker, an organizing director of the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness, blames rising housing costs for the problem and cites a 2003 survey that found the median wage needed to pay for a two-bedroom apartment in the United States to be $15.21, nearly three times the federal minimum (Bader 694). Colleges should instead be focusing on working on fixing money debt issues with students. This brings me to the first …show more content…
Colleges could provide basic housing for the students, that wouldn’t include all the benefits paid housing would have. This would just be one room and it could have a place to cook, a bed, and a desk to study and do homework on. For colleges that don’t have dorms at all, they could accomplish some sort of deal with an apartment or shelter nearby for the students that are homeless. “. . . Homeless students often drop out or fail classes because no one knows of their plight” (Bader 696). While the colleges keep track of a student’s address, colleges never publicly tell professors that a student is homeless. Colleges should identify the student as homeless if they do not present any real housing proof every semester or any other evidence that is found. This would be enough for students who are in bad money debt situations and it would allow them to get a job, pay for school and have a place to stay. If they used it for students, it would benefit the schools in many ways. The school would be known as a good place to study as a result of this. The school would become popular for students looking for a place to study from the area. It would also attract students from other areas and different