Opinions Battle: Should college tuition be locked in for four-year students?
Heck NO!!
by MEGHAN MEEKS
Issue date: 2/22/10 Section: Opinion
College tuition should not be locked in for four year students. While this may sound like a great idea for those of us who don't have a lot of money and rely on student loans and other aid to finance our education, it is not a great idea for the college.
Every year the cost of living goes up, thusly, the cost of running a business, or in this case a college, goes up as well. If a college is to be expected to run on the same allocated funds year in and year out, we'll all suffer.
Anyone who has taken an economics class knows that the cost of transporting goods goes up every year.
Goods that include the food in the cafeteria, the paper we all print on in the library and Piedmont College simply cannot run if there are not enough funds to buy these types of items.
The cost of services such as landscaping, electricity and security go up each year well. All of these cost the college serious money to operate.
Without these services your college experience would literally go back to the dark ages. No lights, no heat or air and no computers would be available. That doesn't really help with your dissertation does it?
The fact of the matter is, the college needs money to run. If the cost of running a business goes up every year, then wouldn't it make sense that the college has to raise funds in order to be able to run as it should?
I am not thrilled about the idea of trying to find yet another way to fund my college education, but I definitely see the reasoning behind raising tuition.
I for one love that Piedmont College has several computer labs, paper to print on, heat during the winter, good food in the cafeteria, and a nice movie night every once in a while.
If I have to pay more for that college experience, I understand. I'll just have to get creative about finding more money to pay for school.
Every year the cost of living goes up, thusly, the cost of running a business, or in this case a college, goes up as well. If a college is to be expected to run on the same allocated funds year in and year out, we'll all suffer.
Anyone who has taken an economics class knows that the cost of transporting goods goes up every year.
Goods that include the food in the cafeteria, the paper we all print on in the library and Piedmont College simply cannot run if there are not enough funds to buy these types of items.
The cost of services such as landscaping, electricity and security go up each year well. All of these cost the college serious money to operate.
Without these services your college experience would literally go back to the dark ages. No lights, no heat or air and no computers would be available. That doesn't really help with your dissertation does it?
The fact of the matter is, the college needs money to run. If the cost of running a business goes up every year, then wouldn't it make sense that the college has to raise funds in order to be able to run as it should?
I am not thrilled about the idea of trying to find yet another way to fund my college education, but I definitely see the reasoning behind raising tuition.
I for one love that Piedmont College has several computer labs, paper to print on, heat during the winter, good food in the cafeteria, and a nice movie night every once in a while.
If I have to pay more for that college experience, I understand. I'll just have to get creative about finding more money to pay for school.
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