Causes And Effects Of Higher Education

In the article The Perils of Higher Education, Kolter focuses on four unhealthy habits that typical college students partake in. The four unhealthy habits are, sleep deprivation, unhealthy diet, smoking, and excessive alcohol. This discussion will focus on one of the four unhealthy habits, which will be unhealthy diet. I choose to focus on unhealthy diet because it is the one I most relate to. According to the Kolter eating foods high in fats/sugars affects the student’s ability to learn and remember new information (Kolter 2005). Furthermore, having an unhealthy diet may also cause many neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (Kolter 2005).

Higher education has become a staple of American society. With over 20 million students attending over 4,500 degree granting institutions, the role that higher education has played on larger society is paramount (Thelin, 2017). However, despite the popularity of higher education institutions, the exact purpose of higher education has changed from century to century and may serve different purposes depending on who is asked. Higher education today is arguably both a public and private good. While state and federal governments have invested in a variety of higher education initiatives, as well as assisted thousands of students with attending college through loans and scholarships in hopes that students use their acquired skills and

The price of tuition and the amount of student debt that graduates find themselves in is another thing that is hurting the scholars in this country. In America, the student loan debt is at a whopping 1.31 trillion dollars with the average student owing around 37 thousand dollars. This is, in one word, unacceptable. How can the expectation be for students to attend these colleges and acquire higher education when they have to pay an arm and a leg just to receive their diploma? This system is setting them up for failure, on top of the fact that finding a job and a lifelong career after college is hard enough. Knowing that they have to add on 37 thousand dollars of worry and stress onto their plate, such not be the norm of the average

Education is the most valuable belonging a person deserves and needs. It is the key to success, wealth, knowledge, and a career that will push you further in the future. Also, high-quality education is a must in the U.S, which means it will help the future generations tackle the nation issues later on. It should be the only thing that cannot be taken away from anyone and it will open many doors full of opportunities. Education will help us grow as an individual, have a better outlook on life, and will help withstand the hardships of life, but what happens when education get cuts down? Are today student’s being cheated out of best education possible to balance the budget?

The United States is often referred to as the best country in the world in many areas. It may be, but far from it in education. Out of a total of thirty-four countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, it ranks just fourteenth in reading, seventeenth in science and twenty-fifth in math (Walker). Despite America's status as a country, America's education is failing because of the large emphasis on standardized education, and the flaws of the students, parents, and teachers. How to fix the education system remains to be a problem.

The problem, of course, is that the cost of college tuition has skyrocketed. Students and their families are getting buried deeper and deeper in debt trying to pay for college. Public universities, once havens of affordable, quality college education, have been hit the hardest. Almost every state in America has cut, and/or is cutting funding for higher education (Ortiz 1). It’s a problem that has quickly become a national crisis. The cost of college is very high compared to how the economy has been and how wages and financial aid have not risen with the cost of tuition. This makes it harder for students to graduate and brings a lot of stress to their lives. Without the funding that is needed many students drop out or take a longer time finishing

What the writer is basically talking about in this article is the importance of change in certain aspects in the education system that could help improve higher education in the U.S. He starts with identifying the problems and outline certain solutions. He has aimed it towards both students and the U.S government, to try and raise awareness. This would be done by recognizing the concerns of students and making the government aware of them. His purpose of writing this article is to initiate or lay the roots to possible change in the system. He identifies flaws in the system, relating them to actual problems faced by students and finally trying to make the government aware, so they could take particular action. The writer identifies the government’s plans to improve higher education by helping students pay for their loans, however he believes that focus should change to finding cost effective ways of educating. He supports his statement by giving solutions, like the adaption of new technologies to make education less costly. ‘To this day institutions have taken technology as an added cost, rather than means to increase productivity and reduce costs’. Another solution the writer puts forward is specialization, meaning that universities should only specialize in particular fields

Many colleges raise the issue of low budget funds, struggles with the student loans and financial aid. Now that the government has put the pressure on the students to pay for their education many schools have trouble saving up money or giving out financial supports to all their students

In America over the past decade, college tuition prices have gone through the roof. Many Americans today suffer with incredibly high debt, or they fear that they will not be able to pay off their debt, resulting in fewer people wanting to continue their education. Without citizens getting a higher education, America would be uneducated, which would result in America becoming neurologically nullified. Sarah Amandalore (2014), writer for the Los Angeles Times states in her article “The student loan crisis: How middle-class kids get hammered”, ‘The Delta Cost Project’ at American Institutes for Research examined rising college costs and concluded that, in recent years, a combination of state funding cuts, overspending by research universities and decreased donations have led to tuition spikes at both public and private schools” (pg. 1). When lower-income families are faced with these problems, it makes getting a higher education hard to reach. With a higher education, more life and job opportunities become available. By the government putting a limit on the amount colleges could raise their tuition, more people may opt to get a higher education. The fear of being in debt makes the idea of a higher education less valuable to many people. The government should restrict the tuition amount charged

In the documentary College Conspiracy, it talked about the reality of the United States’ education business which provides nothing useful to learn but just a degree that is worthless. The number of students who graduated from college is so large that the degree become meaningless and does not provide a job guarantee at all. Moreover, this situation will not just affect those students, because there is so much money have been spent on those students, when they can not pay back, the huge bad debt will impact everyone holding U.S. dollar.

As more and more students flock to public schools because the good universities are too expensive, the higher the schools raise the tuition causing many students to fall into debt. This shows how corrupted the system is, allowing colleges to (in essence) steal from us. Many overcrowded colleges have had to turn away applicants that are actually interested in college. This can effectively ruin someone’s education dream. The waiting lists for many colleges have about 7,000 applicants waiting to get into a college. A list that long can take about 3 years until their application gets noticed, where they might not even make it in. Moreover, many U.S. colleges are underperforming due to the large amounts of

Every year, millions of students across America attend a college or university hoping to further their education and prepare for the futures. The purpose of higher education is to create prepared minds and to help the students reach their full potential. However, the documentary Declining by Degrees, produced by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in 2005, questions and challenges the post-secondary education system. The documentary exposes the problems of modern day post-secondary institutes that are hindering the process of education for students. Despite the secrecy of it all, higher education is jeopardizing student’s learning because of issues within the education system surrounding research driven professors and grade inflation.

For the last couple of decades the United States faced some serious problems within its higher education. Despite the fact that many US universities are considered to be one of the best in the world, there are many unknown problems that come with it. Unfortunately, today’s US higher education can’t guarantee its students the bright bridge into the future. American education became very disparate in terms of its quality, causing the decline in its value. For example, regardless the fact that American’s society faces shortage of qualified workers,after graduation millions of students can’t find a job, while others dropped out and were left with nothing (The Economist, 116). This illustrates that American universities become less efficient with every year, that creates a competition between the US college students and better educated immigrants who occupy many vocations. Notwithstanding the low productivity, universities in the USA are very expensive. According to Ben Branstetters in the past ten years the tuition fees have risen by 80%, making schooling a luxury for the nation. Every year the universities become

Another problem with higher education in America is the cost of attending an institution of higher learning. According to the US Department of Education in 2012-2013 the tuition at a public university was $15,022 and at private university it was $39,173. Tuition and fees have been on the rise in recent years and they are still on the rise. Students are encouraged or pushed to attend college yet college is becoming less and less affordable. If students are encouraged to attend college it should be affordable. The affordability of college is a growing issue since students often graduate bring in debt. Adults entering the working world should not do so with debt that seems nearly impossible to pay back. As tuition rates increase students begin to take out more loans in order to pay for their college education. Students loans cause high amounts of debt since you are not only paying back what you borrowed you are also paying interest as

Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” If someone were to tell me that my education was unimportant, I would quickly side with Mandela. Going to school for 13 years, and then most likely proceeding to pay thousands of dollars for a college education may seem like a “waste of time,” but it is the foundation of what builds our youth. Any teenager today might tell you that they hate going to school, and they think it has no purpose for them because they don’t learn anything important. However, take a look at Oprah Winfrey, one of the most successful women in our day. She lived a childhood of poverty, but then attended Tennessee State University for 15 years. Women, especially of