Summary: The Tuition Is Too Damn High

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Imagine waking up at the break of dawn to go to work from six to eight in the morning, rushing to the 8:15 class at the university nearby that lasts till 10:30. Then going back to work around 10:45 for a four hour long shift at a minimum wage job, only to finish the shift around 2:45 in the afternoon. Exhausted at this point, but none the less traveling from the end of the shift to the rest of the classes from three to seven in order to be considered a full time student. This is a realistic outline of the typical American who needs to have a full time job in order to put themselves through college. This seems mentally and physically exhausting for the student/ employee. Would it not be easier on the student/ employee if they did not have to work as much, so that they could prioritize academics as a main focus? This scenario personalizes the argument for lowering college tuition. While college is a privilege and not a right, and colleges have to …show more content…

He opens with the two main reasons the price of college increases. Firstly, colleges spend more money then necessary by over-paying faculty, building elaborate sports arenas, and more scientific research projects. The second reason is that college increase their tuition, because of spending habits. An example of spending being shown, when the government is pulling out of funding that the public universities are depending on, the public universities then end up charging the students.
An article from The New York Times entitled “Is College Tuition Too Low?” written by David Leonhardt discusses efficient ways to cut wasteful “spending on higher education and redirect this money to lead to more” productivity (Leonhardt). This source helps highlight that the cost of college is far too high for the average American through factual evidence.
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