How Did College Education Become So Ridiculously Expensive?
by Bill Zimmerman
Society's demand for college education comes with an almost impossible price. As the demand for college education rose, so did the cost.
Bill Zimmerman, the author of the book The Student Loan Swindle: Why It Happened -- Who's to Blame -- How the Victims Can Be Saved, explains the situation, "As the purchasing power of working and middle class families declined, college was seen as ever more necessary in the desperate struggle for financial success. But rapidly rising tuition made college less and less affordable. Trapped between their perceived need for an education and their lack of resources with which to pay for it, many families had no choice but to seek larger and larger student loans."
Zimmerman discusses the difficulties families are faced with the worth of the US dollar changing rapidly. Because of that obstacle, the cost of everything changes as well.
Zimmerman captures the terrifying nature of the recent boost of tuition costs and explains the need for it thoroughly.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
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How Did College Become So Ridiculously Expensive?
by Bill Zimmerman
(excerpt from his book The Student Loan Swindle: Why It Happened - Who's to Blame - How the Victims Can Be Saved)
Before the 1990s, student debt was practically non-existent. College was affordable to the working class without having any leftover funds due. According to Zimmerman, "...the University of Chicago, one of the most expensive institutions in the country. Tuition was $870 per year when I enrolled in 1958 (just under $7,000 in 2013 dollars)." To help with the cost of tuition, student were able to get part-time jobs and that, alone, funded their living expenses as well. The rising demand of students within a 20-year span caused an increase in university sizes. Because of that, the states no longer wanted to help pay for the cost of the universities, so students had to take on most of the costs, which were added to the tuition.
by Bill Zimmerman
(excerpt from his book The Student Loan Swindle: Why It Happened - Who's to Blame - How the Victims Can Be Saved)
Before the 1990s, student debt was practically non-existent. College was affordable to the working class without having any leftover funds due. According to Zimmerman, "...the University of Chicago, one of the most expensive institutions in the country. Tuition was $870 per year when I enrolled in 1958 (just under $7,000 in 2013 dollars)." To help with the cost of tuition, student were able to get part-time jobs and that, alone, funded their living expenses as well. The rising demand of students within a 20-year span caused an increase in university sizes. Because of that, the states no longer wanted to help pay for the cost of the universities, so students had to take on most of the costs, which were added to the tuition.
Community Episode Summary
The Community episode we watched was full of manipulation and playing with each other's ego. The faculty at a high school is introduced to a new app called Meow Meow Beenz, which focuses on popularity, which no one takes seriously at first. Soon after the introduction, the characters' egos get in the way of reality and the desire to be liked by their peers takes over their psyche. The app is the main focus, showing how fast it can take over a community and how ridiculous apps can make us look.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Article Summary
Police Dog Gets Promotion - To Detective
by Lyndsay Winkley
The Escondido Police Department named Jena, an 8 year old German Shepherd, their first ever canine detective. Jena will be serving the department by sniffing out drugs. Although they have other narcotics dogs on the police force, Jena is by far the best. After five years with the department, she's not ready to quit yet. It's time to put all those years of training and success to good use.
by Lyndsay Winkley
The Escondido Police Department named Jena, an 8 year old German Shepherd, their first ever canine detective. Jena will be serving the department by sniffing out drugs. Although they have other narcotics dogs on the police force, Jena is by far the best. After five years with the department, she's not ready to quit yet. It's time to put all those years of training and success to good use.
"Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
Despite the fact Google is supposed to help to improve our lives, it could be causing more harm than good.
We live in an age where technology is making an attempt at an easier life, but modern technology might be making it too easy. Before technology, people read books and did a lot of research before they could find what they were looking for. There was a lot of effort put into it. Now, all we have to do is type key words into a search engine and everything related to our search pops up. It's all right there, in front of you, in less than a second. We no longer have to sit in a library for hours looking for the information we need in hundreds of books. Because of it, we do less pleasure reading. We are so used to having the key information appear in front of us that we get impatient quicker. We like when information is summed up for us. We no longer stretch our brains with a long novel because, sometimes, we can't remember the whole story.
In this day and age, if we can't find what we're looking for (or we aren't happy with the amount of information) in a couple pages, we lose interest and move on--to a new article, to a new topic. Perhaps with the ability to type coming into play (for those who can type faster than can write), our brains are simply processing their own information quicker than we used to. Because of that, the way we think changes. We are constantly trying to keep up with each other in ways of technology and thinking. When one speeds up, we try to quicken the other. It's a race to a finish line some infinite ways away.
We live in an age where technology is making an attempt at an easier life, but modern technology might be making it too easy. Before technology, people read books and did a lot of research before they could find what they were looking for. There was a lot of effort put into it. Now, all we have to do is type key words into a search engine and everything related to our search pops up. It's all right there, in front of you, in less than a second. We no longer have to sit in a library for hours looking for the information we need in hundreds of books. Because of it, we do less pleasure reading. We are so used to having the key information appear in front of us that we get impatient quicker. We like when information is summed up for us. We no longer stretch our brains with a long novel because, sometimes, we can't remember the whole story.
In this day and age, if we can't find what we're looking for (or we aren't happy with the amount of information) in a couple pages, we lose interest and move on--to a new article, to a new topic. Perhaps with the ability to type coming into play (for those who can type faster than can write), our brains are simply processing their own information quicker than we used to. Because of that, the way we think changes. We are constantly trying to keep up with each other in ways of technology and thinking. When one speeds up, we try to quicken the other. It's a race to a finish line some infinite ways away.
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