Macie Smith 10/31/14 Pr.5 English Argumentative Essay Most people in our society think college is no longer an option or a privilege but rather a necessity. Kids are raised to believe that after high school they will go to college. Some kids go to college because they want to prove their parents wrong while others go to get the education. Whatever the reason, the value of a four year college is worth the amount you pay. On average the amount a student pays for college ranges from $8,655 to $29,056 per year which is a lot of money, but college provides education, opens tons of doors for career options, and college graduates earn more than kids that don’t have a degree.
Maturity for College Entering adulthood can be stressful and begin early in one’s life. Within American Culture, attaining a college degree is the status quo of our nation’s individuals. Many college students like me have felt the pressure deciding what to do after high school. Some young adults get married, enter the arm forces, get into vocational schools, or like most go to college. Linda Lee, an editor and writer of the New York Times, writes an article to the Time’s newspaper, based on her book, Why Your Child May Not Have to Go to College Right Now- And May Not Ever Have to Go(2000).
Cost of Tuition at OU Planning for college is something that almost every high school student goes through and when done correctly it helps students to connect to the right educational options. Part of the planning process is looking at the cost associated with the respective colleges and universities they are interested in, and the fact the tuition costs for these colleges and universities continues to go up. There’s no escaping these costs either, because if you want to make a reasonable living in America than you are going to need a college degree. In the past 20 years, "tuition increased twice as fast as the overall cost of living (Larson, 63)." There is so much talk about college and the cost of going to school to get a degree that
The passage of the “Pick the Public’s Pocket No More” bill would lower college application rates, lower college graduation rates, and lower our country’s number of new college graduates for open positions in the work force. Without grants, many Americans would not be able to pursue college degrees because of the debt they would acquire financing their degree with loans alone. Federal grants allow young adults, who are the future of our country, to pursue a college degree without the full burden of college debts after graduation. (M) When considering whether or not to pursue a degree, many are persuaded to apply because they often receive grants to assist
CQ Researcher, 2 1001-1024. This article is about paying for college. A college degree is considered especially vital to success. But for more than a decade the cost of higher education has been growing at almost twice the rate of inflation. And with the economic conditions threatening jobs security across the country, parents and prospective students alike are questioned whether they can afford colleges or not.
What is Best for YOU ? During your high school years there is this societal pressure put upon students that it is important to attend a four year university. In school teachers and counselors make it important that students meet their A-G requirements to be eligible to apply to a four year university. In the article “On the Uses of Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students” by Mark Edmundson he argues how generations of students are soaked up into the consumer culture before going off to school, treated as customers by universities before the date of their arrival (Edmundson 300). Not only is higher education corrupted by entertainment consumer culture mentality that causes colleges to be run like businesses, but alternatives to four year institutions are ignored.
Although college enrollment appears to be slowing down in some community colleges across the nation, for-profit schools have increased enrollment by thousands of students every year. For-profit universities are becoming more popular than other community colleges for their fast route to graduating. Advertising is common for for-profit colleges by persuading students that coming to college will be the best decision; it benefits colleges by putting more money out for ads than what is spent on the school itself for faculty. Advertising has become more of a hook to reel in students to apply based on the competition of other colleges and the need to double the ratio of students from the previous years. When the focus on money from enrollment becomes
Steven Green Professor Crankin English Composition I January 24, 2012 Attending College Online The economic downturn that hit the American economy in 2007 has prompted many chronically unemployed workers to seek new ways of marketing themselves in the labor market. Many have chosen to return to college to start or finish degrees that they gave up on years before when full employment was readily available. There are questions that one must ask when considering this option; like what’s the motivation for attending college online, what majors are offered and what do you hope to gain from attending college online , and how will an online college fit your lifestyle. Count me as one of the many that have chosen this path, I decided to return to college to finish my college degree I had abandoned thirty years earlier, via attending an online college.
Jack Lansana English 093 Movie Response: Declining by Degree 4/8/12 In this revealing documentary, veteran correspondent John Merrow takes you behind the ivy-covered walls of our colleges and universities to see if they are delivering on their promises. It has been the best and most relevant documentary I’ve seen in a long time. At a time when a college education is vital to an individual’s future and our nation’s economic standing in the world. The documentary explores the simple yet significant question: what happens between admission and graduation? Through examinations of the lives of students, professors, and administrators, as well as journeys behind the walls of four drastically different college campuses, the film looks to discover if higher education is indeed, on the decline.
I disagree with Caroline Bird’s view that not all high school students should get a college education because, as recent research has show, college graduates make a significant amount of more money than non- graduates. Recent studies have shown that someone working in a profession with only a high school degree makes anywhere from fifty -nine to sixty -six thousand dollars less annually than someone with a masters degree from any given college. That proves that although college may not be for everyone, a person still needs to go in order to make any kind of money to live off of. With the cost of living going up rapidly, it will be very hard to get by with only twenty- three thousand dollars each year. I agree that many high school students are not ready to go on to college.