Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Roberto Rubio
RWS 1301
Dr. Vierra
November 8, 2018
Abstract
Tuition and fees are increasing rapidly and it has become a global issue. Every
perspective will be thoroughly explained and cited. This problem can’t continue to happen, lives
too if you are either wealthy or went to school. Schools have massified not just in size but in
price, this doesn’t just affect student’s it affects everyone. Even people who do not go to school
suffer these consequences because of taxes and any other way the government makes money.
The way it affect our taxes is because financial aid is given to student’s by the government and
Discussion
School tuition is rapidly increasing worldwide because of growth. Growth in population,
surface area, and in knowledge. According to Marthers (Pg.10) we learned with statistics how
college has risen to 7,000$ compared to the early 20th century. He demonstrated how schools
have massified, meaning everything grew, and not just income but also expenses. Consequently,
Harman (Pg. 110) says that higher education has faced internationalization which gave schools
new challenges which were to deal with governance, privatization, and massification which
proves why as income grows so do expenses. It implies that with infrastructure growing so do
expenses.
Student loan debt isn’t a big problem even if it is the U.S biggest debt. According to
Akers the debt ranges up to 1 trillion dollars (as shown in figure 1), but Akers (Pg. 23) expresses
a good point that sooner or later whatever you studied will pay off your loan. He shows how
mostly every person that is “successful” has finished school and they have made for money than
what they spent in college. Unlike Akers, Ziderman (Pg.72) believes that it is too much of a great
risk to get in a big debt since most of the times the effects of your degree aren’t apparent. Society
can agree school isn’t for everyone, so you must take a chance believing that you will make it
through school.
Financial aid is looked at as unfair for different hierarchies. According to Kelchen (Pg.1)
there is inequality in financial aid, like how wealthier people don’t get help and how lower-class
people do. Some argue that the way it is distributed is looked at by democrats. Accordingly,
Hartmann (Pg. 221) explains to us how financial aid a necessity and is fair because lower classes
can’t afford school. Financial aid is given to us by the government which is why it serves
democratically, as we all know the wealthier you are the more you get taxed, so that is why
financial aid is unjust because wealthy people don’t get any aid. Society or atleast in the US this
is where two government parties contradict each other because we know the wealthier you are
the more you get taxed so it is unfair for the “wealthier” people.
Lower and middle-class families don’t benefit as much as families who have received
postsecondary education. According to Orfield, (Pg.5) in the mid 1900’s the price of tuition was
lower than it is in modern times; financial aid was significantly better than it is today, and money
was raised for families who couldn’t afford to send their kids to college. Consequently, Bettinger
(Pg. 52) discovered that the poorer you were in the 1970’s the more financial aid you got. Which
proves that the government’s way of giving financial aid is unjust. Now financial aid serves the
lower class better than the “higher-classes”, since more money is given to lower income people.
Scholarships have been proven to be unfair and unjust. According to Perna (Pg.2)
scholarships are only focused on students who stand out in a crowd, when there is a lot of other
students who can do the exact same thing, but they aren’t capable to reach their potential because
of their financial situation. In addition, Barr (Pg. 15) explains to us that the reason they are unfair
is because some students who don’t receive anything are either minorities or just don’t like being
in “plain sight”. That’s how life is, if you want to be known and move up in the world you must
be something. Which is how internships work because once you are being interned you have 1
The price of tuition affects the attendance rates for different cultures. According to
Michal Kurlaender, (Pg. 27) Latin American student are more likely to get postsecondary
education at the community college level because tuition is much cheaper than a four-year
college. Consequently Koshal (Pg.73) says that a 4-year tuition rises as much as 3 times to a
median member. Logically someone considered a “median” member isn’t likely to attend a
Financial struggle affects the human severely in a negative way. How? According to
Wilding (Pg. 263) he said that Financial problems are one of the world’s biggest reason for
depression. Consequently, Andrews (Pg. 14) emphasizes on explaining to us how that problem
goes to students a lot more frequently because student not only go into debt, they go into debt
knowing how hard school is and how high the risk factor is. This gives the schools a lot to think
about because we know what kind of extremes depression can lead too and no one would want to
be held responsible for that. Society knows that depression is the number one cause of suicide
High school students are taught that college is everything, and I believe that forcing that into our
heads isn’t healthy. According to Perna (Pg. 3) every high school student who has been
counseled has gotten the image of college giving you what you need in life. Like moving
forward in life, but sadly all of us have seen the people that are millionaires and never
went to college and that’s what gets into our heads. Consequently, Clark (Pg.10) proved
to us that the reason the people that didn’t go to college and became successful is because
they were ambitious. They didn’t walk a straight and easy path, it may be displayed like
that but deep down they suffered and went through everything that the common folk went
through. I speak from personal experience because that’s what my family went through
and he had to fight for everything he got because he never finished school, but he still got
Conclusion
Society is affected by the rise of college tuition whether you go to school or don’t. It is
important to realize this because we live in a world where we provide for the government, while
they only provide for some. Tuition has been rises for the last century and it will continue to do
so. Everything is going up in price and we may think that it’s because of how easy it is to get
money, but if you think about it school is just like supply and demand, there aren’t schools
around every corner nowadays. So since demand is going up so are prices because almost
Figure 1. Shown below is the slope on how much student debt has risen from 2006. Copyright Federal
Reserve 2018
Figure 2. Demonstrates how college is a big factor in depression and suicides in the U.S Copyright
Millennial influx 2016
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