Argumentative Essay: Should College Students Pay For College
When going to college today, it costs a fortune just to earn a degree. Instead of charging so much for tuition, students should be able to volunteer through service-learning, and pay for college through the services they provide. By volunteering, students would benefit the professors, themselves, and the community, as well as the school. Students could participate in this program, and not have to worry about working through school, professors would be able to keep up with grading, and communities would get things done, that otherwise wouldn’t have been possible. I work a minimum of 30 hours a week as a CNA, and go to school full time, to make sure next semester’s tuition is paid for; I am a self-supporting student, and it would take a lot of
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Berea College in Kentucky allows their students to do community services in return for tuition, and their graduation rate is 62%; whereas Jefferson College of Health Sciences charges $24,400 a year and their graduation rate is only 47.3%. If students choose not to participate they would have to pay for the tuition rates, therefore colleges would get their money either way; in turn, making the values of degrees go back up. At Berea College, the student to faculty ratio is 10:1, by students performing volunteer work for professors, professors could stay caught up in grading, as well as build good …show more content…
For example: soup kitchens, cleaning old churches up, helping elderly people, and at the local nursing home. I talked to the activities director at Pulaski Health and Rehab, Angie Loy, and she said that students could come in and play bingo with the residents, do arts and crafts, sing, and do bible studies or if the students had a certain activity they wanted to do, they could do that too. I also talked to a lady at my church who does a lot of activities for community college, she said that students could clean up old cemeteries at churches, help do odd jobs for elderly people. She stated some people in the community had many things they could no longer do, such as window washing, and raking leaves. At churches, students could clean activity buildings, pressure wash, and
Berea College in Kentucky allows their students to do community services in return for tuition, and their graduation rate is 62%; whereas Jefferson College of Health Sciences charges $24,400 a year and their graduation rate is only 47.3%. If students choose not to participate they would have to pay for the tuition rates, therefore colleges would get their money either way; in turn, making the values of degrees go back up. At Berea College, the student to faculty ratio is 10:1, by students performing volunteer work for professors, professors could stay caught up in grading, as well as build good …show more content…
For example: soup kitchens, cleaning old churches up, helping elderly people, and at the local nursing home. I talked to the activities director at Pulaski Health and Rehab, Angie Loy, and she said that students could come in and play bingo with the residents, do arts and crafts, sing, and do bible studies or if the students had a certain activity they wanted to do, they could do that too. I also talked to a lady at my church who does a lot of activities for community college, she said that students could clean up old cemeteries at churches, help do odd jobs for elderly people. She stated some people in the community had many things they could no longer do, such as window washing, and raking leaves. At churches, students could clean activity buildings, pressure wash, and