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As everyone knows, Financial crisis having a tremendous impact on Brooklyn College, like other Cuny colleges. The main issue is that taxpayers are losing faith in higher education, with thought that it doesn’t benefit the public good and the money spent on higher education, it should be spent on the things that legislators believe to be a public good. This includes, but not limited to NY infrastructure, health care, K-12 education, etc. As a result of low state funding, CUNY colleges as well as…

It is a common belief in today’s culture that a college degree is the key to financial freedom and prosperity, regardless of cost. But with the average price of tuition rising a staggering 440 percent over the past 25 years, more than four times the inflation rate, the question must be asked, is the college investment overvalued (O 'Shaughnessy)? As college tuition increases so does the amount that students are borrowing. The combination of ever-increasing tuition, growing student debt (rising…

Progressing Knowledge and Ethics Through Importance of Higher Education: An Annotated Bibliography Billitteri, T. J. (2009, November 20). The Value of a College Education. CQ Researcher, 19, 981-1004. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/ By the title of this article you would assume that the author, Thomas Billitteri, stands on one side of the fence on this issue, a strongly pro-college side which goes along with all the people that think you need an education to be…

In order to answer my main research question if pursuing higher education and earning a college degree is a good investment, I organized my paper with the focus on three independent issues: how college quality, college tuition and increasing student debt contribute to college enrollment and impact a student’s future career. I then developed three hypotheses of which I referred to past scholarly articles as resources to help support each hypothesis. The first hypothesis argued that college…

Imagine if you were a college athlete striving to provide entertainment for your student body and college fans, along with bringing in revenue for your school. Would you want to be paid for all the hard work, time, and dedication you put in, or are scholarships and grants enough to satisfy you? Whether or not college athletes should be paid is a huge controversy in today’s society and includes many pros and cons. One pro being that college athletics provide revenue for companies, but if we were…

College athletes get scholarships from colleges to play sports. The athletes put in a lot of time and energy to play on a college level team. Weather they should be paid or not is the question. Pro athletes get money to play sports, so why shouldn’t the college athletes. A lot of college athletes get hurt playing sports which end up hurting their chances of going pro. The controversial topic of paying student athletes has been brought up many times by both the schools and students. The…

When asked about the difference between educational institution as an organization distinct from business institution, for instance, and whether that involve different style of leadership. She answered that dealing with human being is way different and involve different strategies and approaches than the ones used in any other entity: “I think a business has a well-defined and distinct purpose, a business might produce cars, like Toyota, their job is collaterally to produce those cars. In…

Higher Education To begin with, this essay deals with two authors and their opinions about higher education. Sandford J Ungar is the president of Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland . He wrote “The new liberal arts”, in this essay he clarified the misperceptions of obtaining a liberal arts degree. The second author, Charles Murray works at an American enterprise institute, conservative think tank in Washington, DC. He wrote” Are too many people going to college? ” . He talks about who…

NCAA: Exploiting the Oppressed The National Collegiate Athletic Association has nearly failed the student athletes in their care due to their own self-seeking motives. Botched regulations, lack of accountability, and blatant manipulation tactics within the NCAA support this argument. To be considered an intercollegiate student athlete, one must engage on a sports team while also progressing and maintaining within college level academia. In the article “The NCAA and the Athletes It Fails” the…

Getting a college degree is very questionable today, however I believe everyone should get a college degree if there is ever a chance, because of the financial benefits after graduation, and the variety of skills learned. There are for sure many positives to attending college, as well as many negatives. Throughout college there are a variety of different skills and experiences to gain, which would never be discovered without going to college. Many people believe that college is not worthwhile…