Open Letter For Bruce Rauner

I’d like to start by thanking everyone who is with us today. Friends, family, staff, everyone. It’s an honor to be able to share such an incredible day with the lot of you. As we stand here today on what can only be described as the edge of our future, it becomes very apparent that it’s not a distant reality anymore. It begins here. It begins today. We began this journey as scared little kids, each with the same goal; to get to this stage. What we’ve learned along the way will serve us as we move on into our futures. Even though we started with the same goal, some of us will go on to college, others will go straight to being considered the working class. Each of us, however, will travel

Chicago’s budget crisis has been one of the most unfortunate events of the decade. As a former student of Chicago Public Schools, myself and other students wanted the best for our education, but CPS school teachers and faculty are given the bad news that the City Council thinks we demand too much. Resulting in the Chicago Teachers Union strike of 2012, budget cuts, and many other events impacting things within the schools, it is no longer new to students, who also encounter what goes on outside, such as political news or neighborhood violence. Those in schools feel that it has been the place to be and to feel secure. Now that I have recently graduated, I have encountered a similar want for the best for my education through my college. As

Good evening. I would like to begin by welcoming each and every one of you to this joyous and stressful occasion.

The topic of this paper is the states’ decreasing financial support of higher education, the reaction and response from institutions who have lost funding, and the creative ways public institutions are locating additional streams of revenue. States have been the primary backer of public institutions, but since the recession states have shown less commitment financially while still heavily regulating higher education. As a result some institutions have had to change their practices while others have challenged their state’s regulations all together. Many have speculated that state funding may never return to its former highs. Rather than make an enemy of the state, some schools have discovered new and unconvential ways of raising funds for their institution.

A very popular topic these days is College tuition. For what seems to be ages, people didn’t give much attention to the cost of tuition. However, in current times theres been a dramatic change. It seems that everyday, several people are coming to the harsh realization of how high tuition has gotten over the years and they wish to see a change. In this essay, I shall attempt to cover a very serious and hard topic. I say that because in the process of finding information for this topic, there are several articles showing examples of people attacking administrations in serious anger. Little to no information was found giving an example of college staff and administration trying to defend or speak up. Before beginning research for this paper, I believed there would have been several arguments made between enraged parents, students, graduates and administration. Though, upon examination I found my thoughts to be confirmed as false for the most part.

America’s education system has been in a state of distress for the past decade, but garnished headlines recently as the student loan debt crisis reached over a trillion dollars. In conjunction with that, tuition is no longer the only obstacle a student faces when considering their future. As generations come and go, universities have slowly, but surely, been angling their education in a way to favor profit over knowledge. Because of the new direction higher education models are taking, Magdalena Kay questions her readers, “is there a problem with students, with teachers, with administrators, or maybe

In an article written by Michelle Goldberg who writes for The Nation (2015), includes the Governor of the State of Kansas in the article “This is What Happens When You Slash Funding for Public Universities.” (Goldberg, 2015). The moral issue is that the poor keep getting poorer, and struggle to qualify for funding for tuition, which would put them in a better position to increase their pay. According to an article in The Kansas City Star (2015), Kansas is not the only state affected by the increase in tuition. Community colleges have reduced the number of classes they offer (Hanna, 2015) and some states have opted to reach out to the upper crust by offering elite apartments to draw the students who have money to pay for college

I’d like to start of by thanking each and every single one of you for being here today.

One of the important drawbacks of the budget was the cuts and delays in education funding. As published in the article “California lawmakers pass long-overdue budget” (2010), by Fox News “Under the deal, nearly $2 billion in payments to K-12 schools and California's community colleges would be delayed until the next fiscal year”. This was one of the consequences of the late deficit budget, which lawmakers agreed upon. Stopping payments to educational institutions was not seen as a positive feature of the budget. The delay in funding kept the educational programs on hold, which affected many educational

The purpose of this report is to inform the chancellor of the issue surrounding higher education. The issue of higher education is that it’s failing to give millions of student’s quality degrees at a reasonable cost. College costs and student debt have been rising for the past years and it continues to rise. States don’t invest enough in schools to make colleges more affordable which leads to an increase of tuition cost and student loans.

Although this address is somewhat dated, the information given shows the grassroots of increasing completion rates and exemplifies Indiana government in motion to enhance economics for Hoosier families. For the record, this address covers substantiated evidence for overall improvement for the majority of college students in Indiana’s public postsecondary institutions on a sensational level to arouse members of Indiana General Assembly and CHE to continue to graduate more Hoosiers with quality degrees on time and at the lowest possible cost.

He dedicated his legislative career to improving voter access and education. He helped lead the initiative for online voter registration in Illinois, which was passed by the legislature in 2013. Moreover, he created the online petition to garner support for free tuition at the state schools for Illinois residents. His online petition collected 6000 signatures. Representative Guzzardi’s concerns are the higher education costs (expensive) in the state of Illinois, which some parents cannot afford. Because of budget crisis, parents lose confidence in the Illinois institutions. Based on the current situation, if nothing is done, some struggling institutions might close their doors in the middle of the calendar year. Such struggling institutions include Chicago State University, Western Illinois, North Eastern and Eastern Illinois. He pointed out that parents send 10 times more Illinois students to public institutions in other states than other states come to Illinois because they do not have the system in Illinois that parents can trust. He suggested that as the state they can solve both problems of cost, trust and enthusiasm at the same time by making institutions of higher education tuition free for every student. He proposed three options when they can get money to finance Tuition Free Illinois. Such options include; fair income tax (earn more pay, earn less pay less),

At the university of Illinois, I will bring the same energy I bring to the track and to the lanes to the whole campus, inside and outside the classroom. I do not want to open my own office. I simply want to help those in need. I do not want to be limited to just children or just adults. I will accept anyone regardless of their age, background, or ethnicity. I want to take what I learn at the University of Illinois and make a real difference in some people's

President Barack Obama is proposing a plan that would allow community colleges to become more accessible for lower income households, who may not have the means to pay for higher forms of education. This issue on whether to focus and divert most of governmental funds to community colleges has sparked a lot of controversy throughout the nation. The United States is known as one of the most influential countries, with the strongest military defenses the world has ever seen. But by pushing for lower tuition prices or even free college tuition it requires a decision that looks at all sides of the spectrum. Powerful men like Nelson Mandela have said, “Education is one of the most powerful weapons which you can use to change the world”; however, education does come with a high price that most Americans are not willing to pay for. Although providing a higher form of education to low income households will increase the number of educated people within our communities; however, it will not compensate for the negative effects on our society.

Although the state has the majority of the power, people wish to get cheeper tuition costs. The struggle for cheaper tuition stops at state spending. Currently states don't have higher education spending on their top priority. This specific type of political activity is addressed as a representative body in part because the states are the only ones who are able to change the tuition and or spending costs. These issues need to be handled in such a way to make the people want to go to college and get a degree instead of paying thousands and thousands of dollars to do so.