“Seven in 10 seniors (69%) who graduated from public and nonprofit colleges in 2014 had student loan debt, with an average of $28,950 per borrower. (Student Debt and the Class of 2014).” Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has a very audacious idea that could possibly fix this growing problem. Sander’s unique charisma, reminiscent of the sixties, is reinvigorating young voters who are very fond of his plan to pay collage tuition. His idea deals with economic concepts such as, the government’s fiscal policy and Keynesian economics ideology that plays a big role in the policies of democrats. Sanders idea sounds almost too good to be true; that is because it is. Bob Davis, senior editor at the Wall Street Journal, and Josh Mitchell, staff reporter…
The Army 's tuition assistance program was suspended on May 8, 2013 because of the budget deficit. The Army’s tuition assistance program was available for troops to complete a high school diploma, certificate program or college or master’s degree. Under the program, the Army paid 100 percent of the tuition and authorized fees charged by a school up to established limits of $250 per semester hour or credit hour or up to $4,500 per fiscal year. (Plumlee, 2013)…
The big question for students and parents today would be, are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission? The excerpt, “Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission,” by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus is to evaluate whether or not the cost of tuition is worth the benefit anymore. Both of the Authors elaborate in this excerpt by providing problems with the higher education costs and solutions that will allow for money to be saved by students. By focusing on these points of opinion Hacker and Dreifus provide detailed examples of how to fix Americas’ higher education problems.…
The community-college tuition initiative by President Obama is a subject to unusual superlatives as it seeks to universalize two years of college. The plan integrates policies that attempt to narrow educational disparities that are characteristics of growing socioeconomic inequality in the United States. In this sense, the purported Obama tuition plan sought to facilitate an increase in the attendance of college students, therefore ensuring higher graduation rates with less debt compared to the current curriculum. The ideal, rendered most Republicans allergic to the ideology as it carried a 10-year price tag of $60 billion that included state and federal components (Alexander). However, the plan is already a subject to criticism due to its failure to account for the fact that few students under the current college…
Not all students should go to college because college can often cost more than it is worth. College tuition has risen at a significantly higher rate than inflation in the previous generation. With student loan debt having passed one trillion dollars recently, one must ask…
Now let’s feed the unbelievable claim of college tuition being too high. Listen, there are multiple solutions to the problem. For one, an easy suggestion would be just…
With schools advancing and new knowledge being obtained, Obama plans to make college more affordable. He plans on doing this by cutting the tuition fee in half. He also plans to establish a college tax credit for the students and families worth up to 10,000 dollars over for years of college. He also plans to enforce the state and local government to improve the quality of teachers, while giving the local and state governments…
The dreams of numerous college students are being crushed before they even step through the doors of their dream university. Imagine being accepted only to see the price tag for four years at the school is a quarter of a million dollars that’s enough to make the most ambitious people stop and think. It’s way too expensive! College that is, families of all sizes are reconsidering where they send their children. Why? Some may ask this question it’s due to the rising cost of the tuition. People of all walks of life except for the richest find it hard to pursue secondary education out of fear of falling into large amounts of debt that will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Examples are being made around the world about the benefits of allowing secondary education to be free or reducing the cost of schooling to make it more affordable.…
College tuition is a very deliberate topic that will continue to win over students if it is not changed. Not only will students be unable to afford college, but if they go, they will leave with thousands of dollars in debt. The ideal solution to this problem is to decrease college tuition. There are many reasons why this plan would work since other countries have free tuition and there is money that can go towards free tuition. Free college tuition is very achievable so it should begin now and stop increasing. Let’s keep the billions of dollars in debt that we will lose next year if we don’t lower tuition.…
Putting aside community colleges free for two years, have you thought about reforming the education policy and budget? Mrs. President Obama, you have been somewhat obscure about you community college speech and plans what are you really going to bring to the table for us citizens. I would want to know hypothetically speaking, if the bill did pass and Community College was free for two years, the general population of the U.S would want to send their kids to community college because it is for free. This would create a big problem over flooding the community college systems and creating a dramatic effect on the U.C systems. This could potentially worry me as a disabled hearing student. There won’t be enough support for people like me that has needs in able to succeed in life. Our country is not the top five highest education in the world anymore Mrs. Barack Obama like it once was. Due to the lack of funding for education is not being well funded or not being funded enough, cutting off education accessibility today, it will definitely become an economic viability for tomorrow or the next decades.…
Student debt is becoming an increasing issue for many adults and young Americans. Over 1.3 trillion owe in student debt. Truth is, presidential hopefuls like Hillary, promise us a solution for student debt, but instead all they do is present students with these speeches containing false promises. As this problem continues to grow Americans may question if their college education was worth it. We are taught in high school that we are guaranteed to be successful by going to college and getting a degree, but most teachers fail to mention that not only are you not guaranteed work, but you also end up tremendously in debt due to student loans.…
There are many people who want to attend college but struggle with the expenses. Attending college and graduating with a degree will help people live comfortably and achieve their dream job. Many good paying jobs usually require a degree of some sort and people attend school with the help of borrowing money which puts them in debt. School debt piles up after each year of school a person has attended. The problem of college debt has several solutions, and one is superior over the others.…
Thesis: Cost of college tuition should be drastically lowered each year based on academic performance for students who are financially in need.…
In my eyes, affordable college tuition will be the best breakthrough between now and 2025. Although the idea of this sounds absurd because of how high tuition can be these days, I feel as though it is necessary for everyone in this country and other countries as well to have equal opportunities to receive a college diploma. Cost of attending a four year university is out of reach for a vast majority of young people today. Kids my age are forced to base their college choices purely on whether they either can afford to go, or can graduate with an acceptable amount of debt. By making college affordable for each individual, the opportunities for everyone will be much more extensive. This breakthrough in our society will be the best because it will,…
About hundred years ago most kids didn’t even go to school and many didn’t attend college, people were too busy trying to make money. So why do we have to pay most of what we earned for our education? A big reason why people in our nation don’t attend college is because they can’t afford it. Having a college degree will relieve financial stress. In addition, affordable college tuition will make more impoverished students attend college. Finally, more education will equal less violence in the world. College should become more affordable.…