College Education Should be Free for Everyone
People everywhere in the U.S. are going into major debt just to get a college diploma so they can be eligible for a career in the job market. Fifty years ago, having to get into debt just to be eligible for a job was not a characteristic of starting a career. It is a new phenomenon that has developed as a result of the federal government backstopping all student loans (Avery, Turner). Whenever the federal government gets involved in anything in the free… Continue Reading...
school. This prepares high school students for the realities of college education and socialises them into the norms, attitudes, behaviours, and expectations of college life, in addition to reducing the time and cost of college education. However, challenges such as difficulties in credit transfer, little or no confidence in dual credit courses on the part of colleges and faculty members, lack of a strong policy framework, and ensuring equitable participation abound. These are concerns that college administrators must handle if dual enrolment is to be more successful. It is particularly important for the leaders of community colleges to adjust structures,… Continue Reading...
no longer sufficient for most jobs, it is time to make college education free too.
II. One of the main reasons why public higher education, such as college and university, should be free for everyone is that it promotes the values of equal opportunity in education.
III. It is actually more cost-effective and better for the economy to offer free higher education to all students, to reduce the debt crisis and promote the economic empowerment of all citizens.
IV. Free higher education would be an incentive for all high school students to achieve their goals, thereby improving the overall quality of… Continue Reading...
students who transition to college. Dual credit courses are affordable and reduce the cost of college education for a student (Jones, 2014; Lile et al., 2018; Tobolowsky & Allen, 2016). While the benefits of dual credit courses are noble and have been confirmed by numerous researchers, it is disappointing to note that there are still challenges that students face when they are transitioning to community college. These challenges will be covered in our literature review.
Literature Review
The quality of instruction has been in question ever since the dual credit courses begun. A majority of the secondary educators that also teach advanced placement courses have… Continue Reading...
Overall, then, the research has been promising showing that participation in these programs is a “strong predictor” of student enrollment in and completion of college education (Hoffman, Vargas & Santos, 2009, p. 44).
Research conclusively demonstrates the relationship between dual credit program participation and enrollments in community colleges, colleges, and universities, which in turn supports state funding due to the ability for the programs to meet their stated objectives. State-specific data shows that 81% of high school graduates in Hawaii who have dual credits enroll in college, compared with 52% who do not (Lee, 2016). A related goal in promoting dual credit programs is to increase college and university enrollment mainly among underserved and… Continue Reading...
if they work hard, applying their education towards reaching their goals. Therefore, once I have completed my college education, I probably will not have difficulty starting the career that I want.
All college graduates, including me, will struggle a little at first. As Abel, Dietz and Su point out, “difficulties are not a new phenomenon: individuals just beginning their careers often need time to transition into the labor market,” (1). The new graduate is young and inexperienced. Many college graduates assume that their degree is sufficient to get them into the door for their first real interviews, which is a grave error. In fact, some college students… Continue Reading...
'Trust is rising in the elite or "informed public" group -- those with at least a college education, who are very engaged in media, and have an income in the top 25%. However, in the 'mass population' (the remaining 85% of our sample), trust levels have barely budged since the Great Recession'
• Richard Edelman (The New Landscape of Information: 3 Consequences of the Trust Disparity)
From the present-day statistics, the disparity in trust between the masses and the informed public rests at around 19%. This is due to the complete acceptance of adverse opinion by people such as disbelief on the part of consumers or… Continue Reading...
has been in the trenches is symbolically important – Callahan is one of them. Even if Novak is highly-competent, his lack of seniority and college education make him stand out. For the same reasons he is an appealing choice for management, he will have trouble with the workers if it is perceived that he has wrongly displaced Callahan in this wrong. I would choose Callahan –… Continue Reading...
obtained a college education.
While the club will cater to both genders equally, the reality is that marketing efforts should target female patrons. A majority of male clients will go where the ladies are in nightclubs. Groups of people in mixed gender are definitely going to be encouraged in the marketing. The club will not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
The nightclub industry is an attractive industry to enter right now for a couple of reasons. First, there is high turnover of businesses in the industry, and customer tastes are… Continue Reading...
access and utility of educational institutions. This is worrying particularly talking into account that in Iran, the women’s college education was delayed significantly until the last decades of the 20th Century yet in other Western nations like in England, the first women joined university in 1893. Similarly, in the US universities like Chicago, Cornell and Berkeley started to admit female students in the 1890s. This time gap puts the Iranian women at a much lower status educationally. It is worth noting however, that since the 1979 revolution, the rate of women enrolment in tertiary education has gradually increased. The UNESCO puts the enrollment figures of women in Iran… Continue Reading...
crowd that is wealthier and therefore more likely to have obtained a college education. That said, anyone of equivalent status is going to be attracted to the club – if you have good taste, you are going to want to come to YOLO.
While the club will cater to both genders equally, the reality is that the marketing needs to be focused largely on the female audience. Bringing in females to the club is what will bring in the males. This is the nature of the nightclub business – the men will go where they ladies are, so marketing efforts have to… Continue Reading...
analysis. All decisions require an economic sacrifice or have an opportunity cost. The money diverted to a college education, for example, could be used for investment, and the time invested in college could be diverted to full-time work. Not all economic actors will have the same fears and hopes and each person may have different comfort levels with economic uncertainty, but all decisions should be made in an intelligent way.
Example One: Renting or Buying a Home
The dream of home ownership has long been lauded as the highest goal of every American. But many people have begun to question that dream in recent years. Regardless, it… Continue Reading...
