Cost of College Tuition The article "Cost of College Tuition" by Humuhawa Jagitay, a freshman college student at Neumann University, presents a strongly expressed opinion about the cost of college education. In her article, Jagitay is clearly emotional about the high financial burden of college education. She uses examples, descriptive language and strategies to argue for free education. There are major concerns on both sides about college tuition expenses, but the author attempts to prove her argument through pathos, logos and ethos.…
Paying for College (An Analysis of The Rising Cost of College and the Modern Methods Used to Combat it) “Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college” (Green, 2008). A summer 's work at minimum wage use to easily pay for a whole year of college tuition. Today even if minimum wage was doubled, working all summer could barely pay for half the years tuition and fees. This has obviously become problematic, due to the fact that, in today 's job market, it is nearly…
Are Colleges worth the Price of Admission? Every parent wants the best for their children, and they want their children to go and study in college, in order to get a dream career. Now days it’s not a cinch as the costs of colleges are rising, and quality of education is dropping. In the article ‘‘Are Colleges worth the Price of Admission’’, by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, the underlying thesis is simple: college is too expensive, and return on investment of college is rapidly decreasing, constraining some extreme changes in order for college to remain practical and logical for potential college students.…
When it comes to the subject of education, oftentimes many people are skeptical as to whether an institution is basically going to take their money or give them the instruction they expect. In our society today, we see that the cost of living is rising ever so slightly each and every year. With that, it costs colleges big and small far more to provide students with the educational resources that they need. These resources can consume anything from leisure activities to housing opportunities and even providing the highest quality professors. Correspondingly, this leads to the rising cost of education (tuition).…
Is Higher Education Worth The Price? In this response paper I will mainly response to two articles, they are Are College Worth the Price of Admission? By Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, and Why Do You Think They’re Called For-Profit Colleges? By Kevin Carey.…
Across the country, college dreams are being dashed by rising yearly tuition prices. The increase of annual college tuition prices has become such a substantial problem that the percent of students attending college after high school has dropped from 70.1% in 2009 to 65.9% in 2014 (Is College Tuition Really Too High?). (2) Of course, college is a business, and needs money for upkeep, supplies, upgrades, and salaries for the professors. (6) However, the argument pales in comparison to the facts that are present within the declining number of students going on to college yearly, and the consequences of these declining numbers.…
As wages decrease, people are starting to side morewith the opinion that college is just not worth the high expense. The wages for new collegegraduates, comparing female and male, increased dramatically from 1979 to 2000 by at leastthree dollars, but then from the year 2000 to 2010 it decreased by at least a dollar. Having a four-year college degree, known as a bachelor’s, is not as helpful for a successful future as it wasbefore. Now many people can still achieve a good-quality of living without ever having to attenda four-year college and waste money they never had in the first place. Along with the decrease ofwages, there is a pay gap between female and males.…
In the book, “They Say, I Say” chapter fourteen discusses the necessity for tertiary education. The fundamental focus of chapter fourteen is to determine whether or not higher education offers the bang for your buck. The chapter initiates disputes beginning with the article, “Are Colleges Worth The Price of Admission?” by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus. This article conveys a controversial issue of the rising cost of admissions and the descending quality of college education.…
Purpose: To persuade the audience to find ways to promote free college education. Importance to Audience: College education has become a necessity that’s hindering the future of growing generations. Thesis Statement: College Education should be free. Preview of Main Points: I will elaborate on the following three topics: the increasing rate in student debt, how other countries are benefitting from providing free college, and how we can achieve free college tuition in the U.S. (Transition:…
As tuition and fees continue to get higher, scholarships will be more challenging to achieve, and the student will have to get multiple student loans to cover it. “Tuition and fees at public colleges soared a record 14 percent this year, continuing a quarter-century trend of higher-education prices rocketing faster than inflation,” (Price 3). It is true that the government has not always funded the children through the twelfth grade, but times have changed, (Kingsley 16). On one hand, some would argue that students can get apply for a loan or financial aid to pay for college. Education is not free now does not mean that students are prohibited from entering a college or university for a higher education.…
In “Should Everyone Go to College,” Owen and Sawhill states that college allows students who graduate to earn a higher rate of income; however, various factors should be considered before choosing a degree. Moreover, the authors clarify that while the value of college outweighs the costs associated with earning a degree, just any college degree is not the best investment one could make to ensure the completion and success of their education. The authors also explain that the value of college can outweigh the costs associated with completing a degree. Owen and Sawhill emphasized that college improves certain values, such as job satisfaction and overall well-being, while also improving equally-as-important more monetary values such as graduates’…
Should the cost of college tuition be lowered? Many students would answer this question with a definite “yes”, arguing that education needs to be affordable. Now that society is making college education the new element for most jobs, many people now have to gain a higher education degree for the job they prefer. “In the past couple decades; a college education has been promoted as a necessity for success in life.” (At Issue: College Education).…
One of the issues that puts a damper on the spirit of our generation are the costs of college, a struggle of which we are all intimately familiar. Over the past few years there has been an increasing call for Free College, or college that is paid for by the government. There has been a million student March where students…
Students are paying more to go to school and are ending up learning less after graduation. With all the college prices rising, less and less people are able to attend college. “In recent years, students have been paying more to attend college and earning less upon graduation – trends that have led many observers to question whether a college education remains a good investment” (Karageorge). If the price of college continues to increase, the value of a college degree will decrease, because there will be less people attending college. According to Richard Vedder, who wrote “Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs too Much”, the current system of financing for college is extremely negative.…
Each year the cost of higher education goes up, schools find a way to charge more for something new. Most 18 year olds in America go to college to get a good job. That is why this country’s’ students have racked up 1.1 trillion dollars in debt. People say you cannot put a price or value on education, but a four year degree at a United States college racks up to at least 60,000 dollars. The price of college has risen more than four times faster than inflation since 1978, but most of this money hasn’t gone toward the betterment of education.…