Our country prides itself on encouraging its citizens to better themselves through education. (P) While its priority has been high school graduation, many jobs now require college degrees, making higher education more important than ever. While I understand that every American should be expected to sacrifice during this hard time, just as we were in World War II, I feel that this particular sacrifice would put our country in an even worse state. (S) Our work force will not be prepared to handle nor understand the advancements that we have strived so hard to achieve. College is made to prepare students with the newest information possible, so that we can constantly be improving ourselves and be able continue to compete with the world’s leading nations.
College provides us with the knowledge and credibility that employers seek in this demanding world today. However a huge debate has to be brought to attention if going to college and receiving a bachelor’s degree should be a requirement to even get your foot in the door or be considered for a job. An interesting point of view on the bachelor’s degree being a job requirement is in the essay “Should The Obama Generation Drop Out?” by Charles Murray. Murray is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has written on social issues and published a book in 2008 regarding real education. I think Murray’s point of views will change a lot of people and the way they see education as a primary resource to qualify to get a good job.
Savannah A As quoted by Lyndon B. Johnson, “We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment”. This investment in a liberal education is what drives our nation, price-tag aside, into a successful future. Although a liberal education is an imperative investment, it is also a financial struggle for most people. In the text, “College at Risk” by Andrew Delbanco, a man best described as someone who believes that the ideal of a liberal education is essential, but also believes that it is “threatened by a world undergoing radical social, technological, and economic changes” (220).
Ungar argues that the government is to blame for their lack of financial support and not the educational institution. Given that Sanford Ungar is the president of a small liberal-arts college, his obvious bias shows when suggesting that small liberal arts colleges are the most rewarding since they have more of a community feel and are usually independent. But, liberal-arts colleges are better in the financial department because they continue to work to expand “need-based financial aid, the net cost of attending” (196). Courtney Umhoefer graduated party from University of Wisconsin and Ohio State University in 2011 with a degree in consumer financial services. The cost of this left her with a student loan balance of $86,000.
HW6: Hirsch summary In the reading “Creating a Curriculum for the American People” by E.D Hirsch, Jr. emphases on his belief that America’s biggest educational problems can be separated in to three categories. First is our low academic achievement relative to other nations; second is our lack of equality of educational opportunity; third our failure to perpetuate a strong sense of loyalty to the national community and its civic institutions. In the excerpt, he lays out his case that a shared base of common knowledge is essential not just reading and comprehension but the functioning of democracy itself. Hirsch describes how the anti-curriculum movement, the dominant school of thought in education became “tragically and unintentionally” an anti-equality movement. A lack of knowledge, both civic and wide-ranging, is the most significant deficit in most American students’ education.
Nobody State University: Total Revenue Increase Evangelina Mwangi January 27, 2014 Instructor: Sean Bedard-Parker Overview My company, Somebody’s Money Revenue Service, sent me to evaluate and assess the risks of raising or lowering tuition cost with enrollment in order to develop an increase in total revenue for the Nobody State University. Student enrollment is at an all-time low for the university and needs encouragement to increase. With nearby competition from bigger and shorter term schools such as Everybody University and Smart Tech USA, a solution which can compete for student enrollment through tuition or incentive programs is needed. As a representative of Somebody’s Money Revenue Services, I am here to present the Nobody State University (NSU) with the solution to a lack of sufficient revenue from low student enrollment and tuition prices. In this presentation, I will explain the pros and cons of raising or lowering tuition versus student enrollment and how price elasticity will come into play with the tuition variable, as well as inform how I might approach the situation from the position of President of the university.
Kartic 1 Jehrame Kartic John Reimringer EngC1101-94 Feb 15, 2013 The Right Decision "Even for Cashiers, College Pays Off", published in 2011 in the New York Times, David Leonhardt, Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary, argues against the case that college is not for the masses. Aside from his passionate belief that the need for college is crucial, he explains the misleading claims about the prices of tuition and follows with showing that the benefits of a degree are substantial even when a degree is not essential within that field because, aside from all else, colleges teach general skills. As he examines the anti-college argument bit by bit, Leonhardt rapidly lays out all the facts and supports them with astonishing statistics. "Three decades ago, full-time workers with a bachelor's degree made 40 percent more than those with only a high school diploma. Last year, the gap reached 83
She claims that community colleges are looked at with a negative stigma due to a number of superficial and ignorant reasons. Addison conveys a strong and successful argument in portraying the necessity of a community college education in today’s society and supports her claim with sound reasoning, personal testimonies, and good diction in order to create an effective rhetorical analysis. Addison’s argument, though written several years ago, is still mostly relevant to present day where the average college student worries as much about their workload as they do attempting to pay for college. In present times it is well known that community college is significantly more affordable than attendance at a four-year university and typically allows for students to remain living at home, while not having to worry about a lengthy everyday commute to class. However, because they are typically easy to attend, many people think of community college as offering a sub-par education, which limits students’ success when later attempting to develop and expand careers.
Gerardine Elie English 098/099, Section 166 Essay 1 Final Draft How do you feel about Obama proposing that students should have the opportunity to attend community college for free for two years? I feel that this is a very controversial topic and it can go either way.On January 20th, 2015, during his State of the Union, President Obama proposed making community college tuition free for two years. Or as he put it in the speech, “to lower the cost of community college — to zero.” This proposal is a great approach to boost college graduation rates and it allows students to educate themselves and not have to worry about tuition. But Obama’s proposal has some positives and negatives to it. With Obama’s proposal students will learn to be responsible and have goals and students will become more educated.
I believe that this study was not ethical to conduct because it directly harmed another person just to get a statistic and a person would always get hurt based on the fact that human behavior follows normative influence almost every time. A reason for an ethics board to not approve a test like this one could be to just define ethics in itself, and use that explanation for your whole argument. Ethics is defined as a branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions (Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2009). This means that there are certain things you can and cannot do to a human being just to get results for a test.