The cost of college tuition is an issue of great concern. For
the most part tuition costs continue to rise year after year despite the fact
that it is very uncommon for a student’s economic situation to change
drastically in one year. For those that have the possibility of getting
financial aid, unless you have attained some sort of academic or athletic
scholarship, financial aid is typically not enough. That leaves you with few
options as a student, the most common one being academic loans. This said, as
troubling as this situation is, I don’t believe eliminating tuition from
colleges and reducing it from universities is plausible or the right answer to
fix the problem.
The blog
post titled “Let us make school more affordable” in the blog “What is happening
in Texas today?” poses the above mentioned solutions to the issue of the rising
cost of tuition. Both solutions sound great, both solutions would be marvelous;
however I unfortunately don’t think these solutions are possible. Perhaps a
little more detail on the bill that was passes in Oregon would help understand
the foundations of these proposed solutions. Additionally, I would also like to
challenge the statement saying that by implementing these solution there would
be a “higher number of individuals that receive jobs right after graduating”.
If anything it would seem to me that if the solutions where to be implemented
and if they were to work as intended there would be a larger pool of graduates,
meaning the job market would be even more competitive.
Although
I do not have a proper solution to the issue of rising undergraduate tuition
costs, I’d like to bring attention to a related issue. I think more efforts should
be focused on providing more aid for students who are perusing graduate school.
Very little monetary aid is offered for people wanting to further their
education beyond the bachelor’s degree. I think there could be great
improvements done in this area without having to resort to such drastic
measures.
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