Senior Cory Struble, president of both the GW College Democrats and the D.C Federation of College Democrats, writes about the problematic growth of the cost of attendance for colleges.
“Even as the recession deepens and middle-class families face greater challenges than ever before, tuition rates have continued to increase while institutional aid budgets have shrunk.”
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I like the ambition of lobbying state officials, but the problem has many facets, not the least of which is that everyone seems to NEED to go to college today. It has become a cultish social requirement.
I don’t think that everyone needs to go to college. As demand sinks, support will grow for softening tuition pricing.
My wife and I just started making 500,000 a year in gross income and although you may find it crazy we lost money during the florida hurricanes and cant afford to send our daughter to college at a top tier school where she was accepted. She will have to go to a state school because she got a full scholarship. I do not know how people afford it but we get no financial aid but I cannot afford 60k a year at duke, columbia, etc. that means making a 100k just to send one kid to school and I have 3. It seems if you are poor you go for free and i am considered rich and cant afford it. go figure.
Come ON. Haven’t you taken an econ course, Cory? If you increase government subsidies of college education, less people will be able to afford it because tuition rates will go sky-high.
I agree with Bill. People have forgotten that we are not entitled a college education. Rather, we are guaranteed the right to have the freedom to attend college if possible…ts not an inherent right. Remember that.
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While it may be true we do not “need” to go to college, in modern society job requirements have grown. Whereas in the past all that was needed was a high school diploma to get a good job, it is now a college diploma. The number of jobs for non-graduates is steadily drying up on the good jobs, such as the US automakers with good wages and benefits, and shifting more to service industries, like working at McDonalds.