The article “College is Not a Commodity. Stop Treating It Like One” written by Hunter Rawlings, a former president of the Association of American Universities,…
“A Ghost Town With a Quad” was written by Rebecca Schuman, an education columnist, and published by Slate.com on November 26th, 2013. In this article, the author argues that it was wrong of two schools’ administration: Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM), and the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) to cut from their schools what were considered vital academic departments when other things could have been cut instead. Also, by cutting the academics, they have made their universities into wastelands which will have a negative influence on other universities facing a similar situation.…
Rittenhouse Square is a pearl in central Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Square is bounded by Walnut Street to the north, 18th Street to the east, South Rittenhouse Street to the south, and West Rittenhouse Street to the west in southwestern corner of Philadelphia’s Center City…
Masterson, K. (2008, October). Colleges brace for drop in corporate giving. Chronicle of Higher Education, 55(9), 14.…
Jennifer Croissant presents the article, “Can This Campus Be Bought?” in a persuasive way, discussing how the image of a university is affected due to the relationships with large corporations. Croissant provides multiple examples as well as standpoints allowing audiences to view a problem from different perspectives. She points out the reason the corporations are willing to donate money to universities; yet, it is in a form of commercialization on campuses. They are interested in gaining power over the educational institutions, in regards to their popularity and advertisements. On the contrary, the institutions lose the core values, freedom, virtue, and autonomy; strictly speaking, their tendency of being independent has been declined. According to Croissant, this leaves bad images for the schools and they will lose the public and community’s trust and credibility on a large scale. Although she is not against being associated with the commercial activities to stay connected with the outside world, she justifies that there should be a limit in order to prevent the school’s pride, images and capabilities of making decisions. I, as a reader, have a neutral thought in despite of seeing Croissant’s arguments very convincing and helpful because corporate sponsorships also have a big impact in students’ academic lives.…
17 May 2011. All schools are experiencing piercing budget cuts around the nation. Schools are being forced to “nip here, adjust there.” All though the article refers to the cuts as just a nip and adjust, a person would feel like the budget cuts of today’s economy is more like a slash here, burn there. Theses budget cost will force students and teachers to attend new reduced programs at their schools. The cuts themselves are believed to be a “symptom” of a much larger problem- having genuine higher education still exists in our colleges today. Higher education is becoming “streamlined to fit into the demands of the economy, either in terms of conducting basic research that can be exploited for financial gain or by producing competent employees and managers to fill what positions the economy can still provide.” Surprisingly, private school art programs are experiencing the worst of the budget cuts. The percentage of private schools dropping their fine arts program is nearly double the amount of private schools. This article focuses on thirty six connected Arts campuses in the United States that are struggling against keeping their fine arts program alive. It explains how one campus in particular is working tremendously hard to keep their academic programs, which is fine arts, alive at all costs. The campus is currently freezing all faculty staff member’s salary so that they will not have to result to laying-off any of their employees or start cutting any of their lesser taken classes or programs. With the hard and tremendous work that this art community’s campus is doing, with a little help of a microscopic amount of raised tuition of four percent, it is obvious that this school is going to make it through the harsh economy struggles that we are facing today. The school even worked…
There are many options were institutions can use to help increase their revenues. Some of this options can include the rise of tuition and tuitions fees. Raising the tuitions fees can have some negative consequences like the decrease on the number of enrolled students. “Establishing tuition rates at institutions of higher learning is always of fundamental strategic importance to college administrators who are suffering adverse financial effects from reduced allocations from external sources and increased educational and facility costs.” (Bryan, G. A., & Whipple, T. W. (1995). Nobody State University can consider to increase their revenue especially under a harsh economic satiation for the current society.…
2. Carey discusses the crunching debt for-profit schools bring to their students and their practically worthless degrees in his article, “Why Do You Think They’re Called for-Profit Colleges”. Carey starts off by practically taking away the educational integrity of these for-profit “higher” education organizations. He basically describes them as get rich quick sales pitches to investors, with profit mainly relying on student government funding (Carey 217). Carey is relentless on exposing the fraud for-profits carry with them. He says” Without over-sight, the combination of government subsidies and financially unsophisticated consumers guarantees outright fraud” (Carey 217). Also, Carey states that these for-profit colleges offer virtually illegitimate degrees due to low standard. He says, “there’s no doubt that the worst for-profits are ruthlessly exploiting the commodified college degree” (Carey 220). With these statements Carey presents a very clear opposition against for-profit schools, he is very clear in illustrating his argument against them.…
In the article, “Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission?” by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, the authors did research on several colleges around the country to see whether our investment on higher education is really worth the money that we pay for it. The authors believe that universities are the ones responsible for the doubling of tuition costs compared to what they used to be , and not fulfilling the most important objective to student’s which is: “to challenge the minds of young people” (180). In the article, Hacker and Dreifus outline some things they think would help improve some of the problems in the college system and a few universities that they like, and tell us why these schools have won their favor. Being an incoming freshman at Grambling State University, I’ve been able to see some of the issues universities can have from budget cuts, to problems with the G-men football team.…
College tuition has been a major topic these days. For a long time, people did not pay much attention to tuition. Today, things are changing. More and more people are realizing how expensive tuition has gotten and now they want that to change. Authors Elizabeth Marcello and James Skoufis argue the situation. Marcello, a sophomore at the College of William & Mary wrote, “The Case Against Free College” in 2014. Marcello is currently a member of the College Republicans. Skoufis, who is a member of the New York State Legislature wrote, “The Case for Free College Tuition” in 2014. When Skoufis was elected in 2012, his number one priority was making his state’s public colleges more affordable. The purposes for these two articles are to show the readers that there are different reasons why college should or should not be free. Although both articles are well organized and they both used rhetorical analysis, the one that is more realistic and likely to happen is, “The Case Against Free College.”…
Out of all the assumptions about what makes a college a successful college, I believe the value of college is not solely based off of the cost or graduation rate, but it’s value is reflected by the students’ efforts and the life lessons learned. After reading the articles, Why I’m not afraid of Virginia Woolf -- of the, ‘crisis’ in the humanities by Anne E. Fernald, The Crisis in the Humanities and the Corporate Attack on the University by P. Winston Fettner and College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one by Hunter Rawlings, I began to understand more about other perspectives of college that have broadened my understanding of higher education.…
This case analysis will be based on the question, “How do rising tuitions impact students, local employers, and educational institutions?” Economists state that this is due to declining external funding, insufficient subsidies to public institutions, and insufficient contributions to private schools. Schools argue that it is due to quality improvements. In answering this question, an evaluation of enrollment demand and supply needs to be addressed in order to determine why tuition costs continue to rise (Fortin).…
When it comes to the topic of attending college, most of us will readily agree that obtaining a higher education is important. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of paying for it. Whereas some are convinced that tuition is too high, others maintain that it is important no matter the cost. Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus address just such an issue in their essay “Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission”. Hacker and Dreifus discuss the issue of college tuition fees versus the quality of teaching they offer, but also point out that “colleges are taking on too many roles and doing none of them well” (180). They offer solutions and several proposals on how to improve the college experience. The main point they make, however is that colleges “have lost track of their basic mission to challenge the minds of young people” (180). At first glance, college students might say that attending to their dream college is their high priority. But on closer inspection, are students receiving a fair value for their investment? What are they gaining from higher education? “Graduating with six figures’ worth of debt is becoming increasingly common”, Hacker and Dreifus say. If Hacker and Dreifus are right that higher education industry is in need of a reform, as I think they are, then we need to reassess the popular assumption that attending to your dream college should be your priority no matter the cost of tuition.…
Colleges and university have slowly become one of the stepping stones into the working world today. People go to colleges for higher education with the intention of earning degrees in which they can use in their respective fields. Some example degrees that people pursue are Medical, Law, Business, Accounting, and Science Degrees. Through the years the idea of college was that it was optional and it was a door for better life and job. However in the modern times, it become a necessity. It all started when the colleges once single- gender institutions target specific students in their respective demographics. Today, the college market has now been divided into two major categories: Not-for-Profit Colleges and For-Profit colleges. Not-For-Profit Colleges are institutions that are interested in serving the student's needs by providing necessary education to the student. The Not-For-Profit organization are tax exempt and have a board of trustees that makes decisions. For-Profit Colleges are run like a business in which their goal is to generate income for their owners and shareholders. There are no board of trustees at For-Profit College and the owner and shareholders control the decision on which is best for the institution. Although the objective for both Not-for-Profit Colleges and For-Profit College is to provide their students an education in which they can use for their future, both institution have great differences in which their organizations are run.…
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