...of funding or cut back on their expenditure. Many stakeholders in education will be affected by the cut back. Many students who would like to further their education will be discouraged by the high tuition fees, which are prohibitively high. Most parents set up their children’s education fund when the beneficiaries are still young. It is a strategy that enables them accumulate enough money to afford their children’s college education. The rise of tuition puts a strain on these funds. (Apple, 1990). Background Due to the budgetary cuts against education, the state universities and colleges will have to increase the tuition fee to cover the deficits. The tuition fee will go up by 8% this year. The 8 percent increase follows a 14 percent increase in the year last year. The budgetary cuts and the upward revision of tuition fee by the state universities will result into a large number of students being locked out of state universities: they will be “priced out’’ (Anderson, 1988). The thirst of education by these students is not hampered by the high cost of university education. They seek other options of education elsewhere. The students will go the community colleges, which are a cheaper compared to the universities. The influx into the community colleges by the “priced out” students from state universities will increase the admission numbers and put pressure on the existing facilities (Irfan, 1991). More students seeking admission will require that the colleges hire more lecturers...
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...Ways to Reduce College Tuition In recent discussions of college tuition, a controversial issue has been how to reduce the tuition fees of colleges. On the one hand, some argue that colleges need high tuition to help pay for staff and maintenance. From this perspective, a college’s main priority is to make sure that the administrators and professors are properly paid and that there is enough money to fund classes. On the other hand, however, others argue that expensive tuition will discourage students from pursuing higher education and will burden the government with providing financial aid. In the words of one of this view’s main proponents, “People are paying way too much for way too little education” (McCluskey). According to this view, the education that colleges provide is not worth as much as it costs. In sum, the issue is to find a way to reduce college tuition. The cost of college is becoming an issue all across America. With the current state of the economy, the percent of unemployed workers and the cost of college can seem like a far-fetched goal. Many people who may not receive a scholarship or enough government funding may not be able to attend college. This is a big issue because having a college background is becoming an important factor in the business world today but, the expensive tuition discourages students from pursuing higher education. There is overwhelming evidence that colleges need to restructure the way they are ran because tuition prices are increasing...
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...The Arts: Is it really OK to cut them out? The arts have always been a part of human history and human life itself; Paintings,dances,and songs are not even half of what the arts can truly accomplish as we can see in our society today, so imagining a life without them is very hard to picture. Unfortunately children across the nation have already been experiencing a life without the arts, and the problem is getting worse. In 2008, a majority of schools in the U.S. had major budget cuts, resulting in cuts in many different areas of each school district, especially the arts (“Melta”). “During the 1999-2000 school year, 20 percent of schools offered dance and theatre classes, but in the 2009-10 school year, only 3 percent of schools allocated...
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...“Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010 (HR 4853),” extended many of the Bush era tax cuts of “The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001” (EGTRRA) that then President Bush signed into law. As per the announcement on Desire to Learn, I’ll call this new bill “The Bush Tax Cut Extension.” The bill was signed into law December 17, 2010. I am happy with most of the provisions and cuts as they positively affect most individuals’ lives in this country, including mine. The Bush Tax Cut Extension applies to small businesses as well but I will focus on the laws that affect mainly individuals. Working people, both rich and poor, will be able to save more with the tax brackets not increasing. They will pay less in taxes on capital gains from stock investing, continue to get credit for college tuition paid, continue to get a deduction for student loan interest, have a one year decrease of 2% for 2011 in the Social Security tax paid up to income of $106,800, continue to be able to deduct mortgage insurance premiums on a qualified mortgage as mortgage interest, and have many other benefits. This bill definitely helps students, homeowners, families with children, and both an average salaried worker making $35,000/yr. to a worker earning over $100,000/yr. I like the extensions and think it was important, if not necessary, to extend these tax cuts, however, I wish they were extended beyond the two years that most of them were. I think this bill will...
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...I could do anything I wanted if I just set my mind on it. As I become older I am slowly beginning to realize that this is not true. In today’s society, determination alone will not bring you success. In fact, the only thing that will set you on the right direction is an expensive piece of paper that only increases in price as time goes on. “More than half of bachelor degree recipients at four-year for profit institutions carried education debt of $30,500 or more during the 2007-2008 academic year, compared with 24 percent of those at private four-year institutions and 12 percent at public four-year schools” (Clemmit). A college education is meant to prepare people for a desired career where they can hope to attain the American Dream but unless you come from a wealthy family, paying for this education could take the rest of your life. With constant budget cuts in education, universities are forced to increase tuition prices dramatically which results in students graduating with large amounts of debt and no guarantee of a job to pay it off. Raising tuition prices is unfair to the students hoping to accomplish their dreams and live life the way they choose. Universities are taking advantage of people coming out of high school willing to do whatever it takes to prepare themselves for the career they desire. Something should be done to stop these schools from raising prices so high that taking a loan out is a common practice to pay for school. American families are having a hard...
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...basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance..." —United States Code Section 20. There are most definitely people that would oppose this law, but most can agree. There should not be discrimination to women, and there shouldn’t have been from the start. Title IX provides women freedom to be able to do whatever men can do. Discrimination among women is huge and men feel that some sports should be kept for just men only. “The 1960’s were an especially important decade for transformations in American society, which supported the institution and protected of broad civil rights.” (Title IX: An Overview, Aliprandini, Michael) In 1972, less than 30,000 women nationwide participated in college athletics, while 170,000 men participated, according to the Washington Post. Now that Title IX is active, today more than 180,000 women play sports sponsored by their colleges. ”Women are 45 percent of the athletes at NCAA Division 1 institutions…” (Title IX: An Overview, Aliprandini, Michael) This shows that women have wanted to be involved in sports for a while. The number of women playing in college sports has increased 150,000 since Title IX started. This shows that women really have fought and are completely against the discrimination. “The law is applicable to all schools, colleges, and universities that receive federal funding, and it covers a...
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...Returning Wrestling to the University Imagine this, you are in the gym waiting for the first practice of the season to start. Your excitement is overwhelming. You have spent your entire life working up to this point; you are a college athlete. You are being paid to attend school and play your favorite sport for it. Your coach walks in with an upset look on his face. You think to yourself that it’s just going to be a difficult practice. Your coach actually tells you that you do not have practice today. You wont have practice ever again. Your entire life work gone, just like that. With your heart crushed, you cannot understand why the sport is just, canceled. You walk up to your coach and ask what the problem is. Your coach, as disappointed as you, tells you that the University board of athletics has decided to drop your “life” from the program to abide by the Title IX requirements and for not being a profitable program. This actually happened here at the University of Utah 50 years ago and it’s because there is a problem going on at Universities like The U and it is that men’s non-revenue sports, like wrestling, are being impacted negatively. Wresting is beginning to fade from colleges that are not in the Big Ten or the Ivy League, and Colleges like the University of Utah are participating in letting the sport diminish. In an article written by Coyte G. Cooper, “Involving the core product” “While there were 363 NCAA wrestling programs in 1981, the number of men’s wrestling...
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...financial stages. There are times when the economy is facing a budget deficit, which means the tax revenues in the government are lower than the government expenditures. The economy can also experience a surplus and high debt, which can also drain an economy. The state of our government can affect people from taxpayers, to the elderly who are collecting social security, to children needing medical and governmental benefits for their well-being. The government debt situation can be either an advantage to the population by lowering taxes, or a disadvantage by making taxes higher. * To know how taxpayers, future Social Security and Medicare users, and unemployed individuals are affected by the U S.’s deficit, surplus, and debt. It is important to understand the definitions of deficit, surplus and debt. Surplus occurs when there is more supply than demand, as in extra resources. Deficits occur when a government's expenditures exceed the revenue that it generates. Debt is an amount owed to another person or government in economics. * Taxpayers can benefit from a budget surplus. A surplus can create a reduction in the tax rate which leads to a higher consumer’s savings rate. The less taxes that consumers have to pay allows spending or savings in other areas. An increase in national savings (reduction in tax rate) also creates additional money that can be available for banks to lend. The more money banks have to lend competitively, consumers purchase items at lower...
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...Kiran Raju Professor Hays RHET 105 February 28, 2016 An Annotated Bibliography: “The benefits of a college degree does not outweigh the cost of it” Abel, Jaison R., and Richard Deitz. "Do The Benefits Of College Still Outweigh The Costs?." Current Issues In Economics & Finance 20.3 (2014): 1-12. Academic Search Complete. Web. 6 Mar. 2016. People who graduated with a college degree still questions whether college was a good investment for them. “Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs?” addresses how students who graduated with a college degree are still unemployed and in debt. Furthermore, students have paid more to attend college and earning less upon graduation. This academic journal compares both the pros and cons of attending college. It contains graphs and illustrations that contribute more data about increasing tuition and how it affects your decision about whether to attend college. “The total costs to attend a 4-year college outweighs some people’s home value.” I thought this quote summarizes the academic journal very briefly. “Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs?” is a scholarly source and an academic journal. The data in it is really reliable for my research paper. It contains graphs and illustrations which could be used to make conclusions. This academic journal is more biased towards the people who believe that the benefits of college do not outweigh the costs. I could potentially use this source to support my thesis more...
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... The President discussed 5 important points in his 2013State of the Union Speech and they were: Immigration Reform: Minimum Wage Increase: Tax Reform & Debt Ceiling: Climate Change and Gun Control. At a time when Republicans are insisting on spending cuts, Obama pushed more public spending on universal preschool, construction work on bridges and schools and a jobs program rebuilding vacant homes in rundown neighborhoods. He pushed for an increase in the minimum wage to $9 an hour, with future increases tied to the cost of living. And he continued to push in support of left-leaning social issues including gun control, immigration reform, climate change and advancing equal rights for gays. President Obama stated how the American people does not expect government to solve every problem nor agree on every issue, but we do expect for the government to put the nation’s interests before party. He stated that their work must begin by making some basic decisions about the budget, decisions that will have a huge impact on the strength of American recovery. Over the last few years, both parties have been working together to reduce the deficit and has done so by more than $2.5 trillion, mostly through spending cuts, but also by raising tax rates on the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. As a result, we are more than halfway towards the goal of $4 trillion in deficit reduction that economists say we need to stabilize our finances. He stated that the biggest driver of our long-term...
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...unimaginable levels, where even getting a college degree has become a reality. Something which would have been impossible during the 80's or even the 90's.Online education has become the forefront of innovation, affordability and convenience. Students all over the world are able to connect to their education needs through technology. Online education is the natural evolution of an education system, a necessary progress for it to survive in the technology age. In spite of all its progress over the decade and its great benefits, online education has its own innate disadvantages that one must take into consideration before jumping into it. In this brief article we shall discuss both sides of the story from the standpoint of a student. Benefits: There are a number of benefits in taking online courses. Easy accessibility is the number one priority for an online student. Instead of having to go to class on a fixed time frame, online courses give you the ability to access course materials including video lectures anytime of the day, making it convenient for those who work full time to go through their course material. Online education is the primary gateway for students who live far from a college or those who don’t have access to college level education in their locality to work towards a college degree. It motivates students, since it is a self-paced study environment which makes the student be more responsible and organized. Online colleges unlike the...
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...on is a gap year needs to be well thought out and thoroughly planned with set goals. What is a Gap Year? Simply put, a gap year is a break from education. It can be taken at any time, but most often occurs after graduating high school and before starting college. Gap years are not always a year. They can span in length from a few weeks to a year. Why Take a Gap Year? Students take a gap year for a number of reasons. Some are just academically burnt out and need a break. Some are unsure of which direction or career path they want to pursue. Others want to travel, study abroad, volunteer and do things they may not necessarily have time for later in life. Still others take a year off to work and save up money in order to afford college. The Cons of a Gap Year Gap year opponents fear once students leave the educational setting and get a taste of the ‘real world’, they may never want to go back to the stress, structure and rigor of academic life. They say students who work, may start to enjoy making money as opposed to spending it on tuition. Often those students lose sight of the fact that further education is an investment that actually increases their earning power. Opponents say without a clear cut plan, students who take gap years often end up wasting that time and falling further behind their peers, which can lead to...
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...The benefits of earning a college degree can help you in many ways. It can help you get a job easier. The higher degree you have the more satisfied with your job you will be. During an economic down turn employers often have to cut employees but if you have a college degree then the chances of you being laid-off are substantially lower. Higher degrees tend to earn more, if someone only has a high school diploma then they will earn $32,500 per year while someone with a PhD will earn $100,000 per year. However your field of expertise will also decide how much money make. I chose WVU because it is close to home and is cheaper than going to a college that is out of state. They also have all of the classes that I want to take. The tuition for...
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...Walmart Saving Money by Cutting Benefits Walmart’s motto is “Save Money Live Better” and Walmart is cutting costs to save money by eliminating its health insurance coverage for part-time US employees that work less than 30 hours a week, starting in January 2015. The reasoning behind this is to control the rising healthcare costs and pressure from Wall Street to meet its bottom line. According to (TABUCHI, 2014) it affects about 30,000 employees, which is 5% of Walmart’s part-time workforce. I am currently employed at Walmart with a schedule of 32 hours and this does not affect me directly, but it if my hours were to decrease at the end of the year I might lose eligibility for healthcare benefits. The loss of hours currently affect some of my coworkers that are already currently working under 30 hrs. In 2011, Walmart claimed that it cut back his eligibility of health insurance coverage for their part-time employees who worked less than 24 hours a week, but in 2013, it moved it up to 30hrs or less. Some of the employees are unable to work full time including myself because of our college schedules or having children. In my opinion, it would be necessary for part time associates at Walmart to receive benefits to be able to meet their basic health care needs. Part time associates receive less pay then full time associates and cannot afford outside health insurance like United or Blue Cross. Most college students that are working would go for a period...
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...Leanne MacDonald Multimedia Writing & Rhetoric 13300 11/11/2013 Reforming the NCAA In recent times a litany of scandals has brought the corruption of college sports to the forefront of the national discussion. Fans and media commentators express outrage each time it is discovered that a college athlete has been receiving under-the-table payments. These scandals disguise the larger issue however. The true injustice is not that some athletes are being paid but rather that more are not (Branch). Varsity athletics have evolved immensely since their inception in 1869 as a toughening agent to prepare American men for a new era of Darwinian struggle (Branch). College sports have become a lucrative industry, built on a free labor source unavailable in any other business (Palutsis). Yet despite the billions of dollars college athletes generate for their universities, they earn nothing for themselves. The restrictions placed on athletes by the NCAA not only prohibit the payment of a stipend to help cover the cost of attendance but they also prevent student-athletes from marketing themselves, cutting them off from potentially lucrative opportunities. A large proportion of these student-athletes come from low-income families who can barely afford to keep them in school even with the help of an athletic scholarship and to cut these people off from this potential source of income is cruel and unfair. While the NCAA’s commitment to amateurism sounds noble, in reality this could not be...
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