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Which articles in EHE did you read? Which issue are you interested in for P2? Of the problems that are arising within that issue, which problem do you think you’d

I read Growth for online learning by Doug Leaderman and who are you and what are you doing here by Mark Edmundson. I am interested in the education changes and I would like to arise the problem of low graduation rate at CSU.

like to solve for P2? Why? What might be a solution to the problem? Why? What stakeholder would you like to target for your P2 proposal? Why is the issue exigent for that audience?

I would like to increase both the graduation and Education quality because the education can affect the whole world if we were educating stars in their fields instead of workers in a community. I would like to target CSU Faculty because they are the one who has the power to change the course standards and can put pressure on the president to take an action to raise the education quality.

Why is that a logical audience for this proposal? (In other words, how and why does that stakeholder have the power to implement your solution?)

The instructors are the one who put the guides and grades of any class so If the president did not want to change the education system by adding mandatory classes to developed student’s  skills and techniques the faculty members can add either an extra credit H.W or mandatory activates to help evolve student production, innovation and creativity power. 

Blog #2

Cheating in the academic setting is a problem that has been occurring for a long time. The lack of effective actions towards the prevention of cheating has gained my interest to try and come up with a solution. In P2, I plan to explain why this problem is exigent, who the audience I’m addressing is, and solutions to this massive issue. The results of a survey taken in 1964 by a very diverse group of students showed that “Three-fourths of the respondents had engaged in one or more incidents of academic dishonesty” (McCabe 231). Knowing that the majority of students are participating in cheating shows that the need for a solution is exigent. It is even furthermore important due to the slight increase in academic dishonesty that was found in a second survey done 30 years later. In the article, “Studies Shed Light on How Cheating Impedes Learning” Sparks stated that, whether through cribbing homework, plagiarizing essays from the Internet, or texting test answers to a friend’s cellphone- even though overwhelming majorities consider it wrong” (Sparks 256).  This is why academic facilities, the stakeholder in this situation, need to acknowledge the deceitful acts that are occurring in their establishments and set strict punishments for the progression of student’s honesty. It is important that the educational facilities are part of the process in preventing cheating because they are the individuals that will be able to set and enforce a zero policy environment for cheating and implement punishments. I propose that the actions that the academic facilities should include, informing the students on what constitutes as cheating, letting the students know they understand the pressure that they are under, require students to sign a honor code, and to punish those who are found guilty of the crime.

(Graph shows the importance of having cheating defined to students.)http://www.coppellstudentmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/cheating-graph1.jpg

Since this problem is so relevant in schools of all ages, I suggest a synthesis of actions to be taken. The first step is to educate the students on what constitutes as cheating. The audience for this should include students of early ages. It is important that students, especially young students, understand what plagiarism consists of and how they can avoid committing it. Next, it is important for the faculty of education systems to make it present to their students that they understand the pressure they are under from their parents, coaches, colleges and themselves. Doing so will help break the thought that teachers do not understand how stressful it is to be a student. When students have a trust in their teachers, they will be more likely to consult them for help because the barrier will already be broken. Lastly, and most importantly, facilities need to set honor codes, along with a strict no tolerance policy. Honor codes help provide an environment that make students consider the code before taking negative actions. McCabe and Treviñ0 found that “Cheating occurs less in honor code environments” (McCabe 235). Part of developing an honor code deals with creating a safe environment in which students do not have to worry about being robbed of the work. In order to implement an integrity code into schools, it is important that the students are taught about exactly what the code consists of as well as having to sign a document stating that they will follow through with the code. When they sign their name on the document the students should fully understand that if they commit plagiarism you should expect to be prosecuted. Lastly, in order to complete the purpose, less academic dishonesty, education facilities need to set a no tolerance system. This means that no matter the type of cheating that occurs, students need to be punished in order for the honor code to be taken seriously. Overall, it is vital to the student’s success that academic facilities take action to prevent cheating. The purpose of this is to make sure that students are not taking credit for other people’s work as well as making sure that the students are learning as much as they possibly can.

Work Cited

McCabe Donald L. "Cheating in Academic Institutions: A Decade of Research." 2001. Ethics in Higher

Education. 1st ed. ED. Nancy Henke, Lisa Langstraat, Adam Mackie, and Emily Morgan.

Southlake, TX: Foutainhead, 2013. 229-245. Print.

Sparks Sarah D. "Studies Shed Light on How Cheating Impedes Learning." 2006. Ethics in
     Higher Education. 1st ed. ED. Nancy Henke, Lisa Langstraat, Adam Mackie, and Emily      Morgan. Southlake, TX: Foutainhead, 2013. 255-260. Print.

P2 blog post: College cost

When thinking about what to write about for p2, nothing caught my eye as much as the articles about the ongoing increase in college cost for students across America. This included articles like Ethical Values: Economic Costs (EHE 107), UC Student Investment Proposal (EHE 117), Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi (EHE 123), and Higher Education: Not What It Used to Be (EHE 111). One of the many problems us students deal with today is the fact that they more than likely have to deal with crippling student debt way after they complete college. This is a huge problem not only because we are one of the few countries that still has this debt problem, but that students could be dealing with this for the rest of their life. I care deeply about this for a number of reasons. For one the fact that anyone should deal with this kind of debt in their lives is absolutely appalling. Secondly, if it wasn't obvious before, I myself am a college student that has to take out student loans to afford going to college. There are many possible solutions to the ongoing student debt crisis. We could lower the cost of college all together, but I imagine that it's a lot harder said than done. You'd have to deal with a lower value in the school in general, not to mention lower income for professors and other faculty. Another thing we can do to easy the student debt problem would be to work toward a "free" education system like in countries like Denmark. This way, our taxes would be used to better ourselves instead of wasting our money in other, less important affairs like war. Unfortunately, I don't believe this is happening anytime soon since this is seen as a "socialist" policy and our country is so afraid of that word that they won't even give it a second thought. One of the stake holders I could probably target are the people at the top of the school hierarchy or anyone who has direct authority on the situation, like the dean. This proposal is exigent for them because they're the ones who probably have the final say in the matter and I believe that they know what's going on and refuse to do anything about it. They are the logical audience because like I said, they're the ones who have the literal authority to implement any kind of reform to finally help stop the growing student debt crisis.

P2: College Costs

Jacob Jones

Blog Post 2

             In Ethics in Higher Education, several articles caught my attention on the topic of the cost of college tuition, how the prices have dramatically increased over the years, and how scholarships and grants are directly affecting the costs. The articles that particularly caught my attention were Ethical Values: Economic Costs (EHE 107), UC Student Investment Proposal (EHE 117), Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi (EHE 123), and Higher Education: Not What It Used to Be (EHE 111). Each of these sources were connected with the aspect of college tuition and the debt that is burdening so many students. For the P2 assignment, I am having to take the responsibility of addressing a potential solution for solving a problem that is currently happening and effecting someone or something in some way. The problem that I am bringing attention to is the ever-growing cost of college tuition across the nation, along with how that is hindering more people to attend and how the graduate students are weighed down with these large sums of debt. My solution will effectively and manageably be able to, in the long run, benefit more people that do not have the funds to currently attend college themselves. If correctly put into motion, my solution will not only dramatically raise attendance of universities but also pull in more money for the universities due to increased student body. In the article Higher Education: Not What It Used to Be, a graph is visually given to show how the cost of university per student has risen by almost five times the rate of inflation since 1983, making it less affordable and increasing the amount of debt a student must take on. Consequently, ending up with two-thirds of graduate students today taking out loans and doubling the debt per student in the past 15 years.

             The solution I propose is solely to increase the student body population of colleges across the nation and show that with lowering the tuition costs, we can achieve just that. The only way that we will be able to make this goal a reality is to completely abolish the concept of grants and scholarships and have every single college drop their tuition significantly. Grants and scholarships are the leading reason to increased cost of tuition, because they are essentially “free money” the institutions are lending to students that is never actually paid back. By losing this free money that is be lent to students the institutions have to raise their costs to account for what funds are not being made, resulting in dramatically increased costs at a rapid pace. At first this idea may seem ludicrous and unable to produce results. However, with bringing down the cost of tuition for every educational institute in North America and completely ridding grants and scholarships from the picture, colleges across the nation will be more populated thus bringing in more money and benefiting more people’s lives with higher education. If we can bring the cost of college down closer to the average income per household the results would be immense.

             The first stakeholder of this proposal would be specifically targeted to the entire student body of every university that is already currently in attendance. This proposal would directly upset a substantially large portion of students that are currently receiving grants or scholarships, yet it will significantly decrease their tuition cost and lower their debt upon graduation. This proposal is significantly positive for many people across the nation that are not able to afford college at its current costs. The increased number of people applying for colleges will bring in more money than each college is currently making.

             My second stakeholder would be every university/ higher education institute in North America. Although all of the universities would see this as a negative idea at first, it can become significantly beneficial and directly affect communities around the nation positively. The benefits to the solution that I am presenting could have incredible results that would easily trump the negative aspects of it. The amount of debt on graduate students would be dropped significantly and the amount of people in the nation pursuing higher education would increase rapidly.

P2 Blog Post

Andrew Onofrietti

September 30, 2016

Blog 2

            The articles I chose to read were “College Grads Struggle to Gain Financial Footing” by Jennifer Ludden and “ 9 Unbelievable Student Loan Horror Stories” by Mandi Woodruff. I decided to focus on “Costs and Student Loans” because I thought it would be an interesting topic as I am in college currently. Fortunately I am not in this situation but a surprising amount of my friends are. The major problem with student loans appears to be with corporations aimed at fixing student loans, like Sallie Mae. Another issue is the impossibility of repaying student loans due to the debt that’s already piled up. I plan to solve both of these problems in P2 as they go hand in hand. I’d like to solve these problems because with the rising amount of both debt and students who require loans, a solution really needs to be found.

            Reading some of the debt stories got me thinking about how quickly your debt can pile up. Certain degrees are no longer viable in today’s market. In extreme cases, a lack of financial responsibility isn’t even the culprit; it’s the sheer magnitude of the debts they have to repay. This is just wild to me.

            One possible solution I can think of is actually the “UC Student Investment Proposal” because it relies on graduates and their alma maters equally. The article proposes that undergraduates at the UC pay nothing because the university will be receiving their payment from graduates instead. It forces universities to invest their future in their students. Also, it reinforces the belief that “you get out what you put in” because universities rely on the income of graduates. There will be a stronger emphasis on finding jobs for graduates which was coincidentally another problem graduates with loads of debt had. I jus think that with this proposal, college would be worry free from a financial standpoint, and by the time you’re required to start paying your loans, you’ll actually be financially stable.

            The proposal also includes how the shift could occur. First, all students earning full-ride scholarships would immediately be put into this program. These first students will still attend college without any payments, but will pay later when they graduate. The money that would’ve gone towards scholarships is then put towards other needs. Eventually, the entire university will be apart of this program.   

The major stakeholders for this proposal would mainly be students and universities. Students are stakeholders because they gain the peace of mind of not having to take out loans and acquire debt. Universities are stakeholders because they could potentially lose money if not everything in the proposal goes right. This issue is exigent for universities and students because student debt is deterring potential students from college altogether. The students would not be the primary audience for this proposal because they don’t really have the power to implement any of the actions. Rather, universities would be the main stakeholders as they can actually implement what the proposal calls for.

Students displaying their debt on graduation day, see link for media: http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/wp-content/uploads/studentdebt31515.jpg

P2 blog post

For my P2, I decided to talk about the topic cheating.  I think that’s a serious issue in schools and I think it would be nice for people to hear about it from an actual students standpoint. The articles I read to help me with this P2 were the ‘Harvard Cheating Scandal: Can an Honor Code Prevent Cheating at Harvard?’ and ‘Cheating in College’.  Ultimately, I know that I personally can’t completely stop cheating in all schools and universities but it’d be nice to be able to make a difference in cutting the cheating back.  I think by being able to help reduce cheating in schools and universities not only will it help benefit the teachers to make sure they are teaching how the students are able to understand but it will also help the students so they can actually learn about something instead of just passing a test and moving on.  A solution to the cheating problem could be making sure there’s an honor code in every school and making sure it’s enforced-and by meaning “enforced” I mean what if every year schools take time,even an hour, to talk about cheating and the effects it has, not just the punishments of getting caught but the long term effects as well. Another idea I have to help reduce the amount of cheating going on in schools, was to let the students know about available resources for them in a subject to get the help they need so they don’t feel like cheating is their last hope.  As a student who got caught cheating on a chemistry test freshman year, looking back at the whole thing, I think the whole situation could’ve been handled a different way and cheating could have been avoided if I had just known of resources to help me instead of me feeling hopeless the night before the test. The stakeholders I’m targeting in this paper are going to be students as well as schools because well, those are the ones being affected the most.  Schools are being affected because if students are cheating, how do they know if the teachers are actually up to date with teaching skills and so on?  Cheating affects students because yes, they end up getting a good grade on the exam or in the class but what happens when they actually need to know what they were supposed to learn in the first place and they can’t; something needs to change so students stop screwing themselves over in the long-run.  In order to make a difference in reducing the amount of cheating that’s happening in schools and universities you have to start with the source of the problem-the students.  They’re the ones thinking that cheating is okay as long as they get that good grade and don’t necessarily think about all the consequences that go along with it. I chose this image to show readers that cheating doesn’t affect only a few students, but a majority of them have cheated at least once.

P2 Blog Post

While perusing the Ethics of Higher Education, I came across a striking story about some of the most brutal occurrences that take place in college. Occurrences that leave the victims feeling inhuman and treated worse than cattle before they are processed. Greek Life hazing. This issue has gone for time long enough, unchecked and seemingly covered up and ignored. The issues I'd like to solve are the incredibly masochistic treatment of pledges, in what would otherwise be very prestigious universities. The level of prestige probably being the reason for why it has gone on for so long without anything done about it.  These universities thrive off of their traditions, but it gets to a point where it is time for some of them to go, because of the products that are produced in the students that endure it. Most of the students that graduate from such institutions go on to become highly placed individuals in society, but also take these horrible memories with them. as a result, it is no surprise that you would find most psychopaths in places such as Goldman Sachs rather than in prisons. What I propose be done about this, is a system be set up in which a human resource officer who has no connection to the fraternities themselves, be available to and involved directly with pledges and frat brothers alike. This would be in place in order to be able to tell if there is truly something despicable going on behind the curtain of what would mostly be a very secretive scene. In addition to this, these resource officers would rotate frats every week or so so that they are not biased or tied to the group themselves, to prevent corruption in the system. This proposal would be proposed to the university faculty, mainly because of their power to put such leverages in place. It is a very simple and feasible proposal to put in place. Very little complication, and there should be a very large margin of improvement among pledges because of it. Otherwise, it would seem almost as if the university is just turning a blind eye to what goes on in the hazing process of fraternities.

Blog 2 College Costs.

Sean Huckle

Blog Post 2

            As a student myself I feel every inclined to know about what is happening in and around colleges everywhere. While reading Ethics in Higher education I decided to read four articles that are especially interesting to me in the case of the cost of college education around the US. These three articles included: Economic Cost (EHE 107), UC Student Investment Proposal (EHE 117), Higher Education: Not What It Used to Be, and Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B Katehi. I put the most amount of attention on these four articles because they all have to deal with tuition costs and debt. As a student having to pay tuition myself it connected strongly with me. For our Project #2 coming up in the next weeks we are required to address a possible solution of our making to solve a real life problem happening around us. The problem I will be addressing and trying to solve is the increasing costs of tuition at colleges across the US and how debt is hurting thousands of people coming out of college.  Creating an efficient solution to help college students pay for tuition during and after their time in college is no easy task but if successful could help thousands of students and families everywhere. As seen in the article Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B Katehi, students at UC Davis were very enraged by the idea of raising of student fees and college tuition. Just about the only way to make tuition drop is to make a movement throughout all of the US and colleges from Santa Barbra to Boston. It won’t happen if only a few universities here and there consider it.

My solution to help people and the rise of tuition is to address the universities about where the money being increased in tuition is going.  The best way to help the students while the raising of tuition is to put some of the money own into a small fund that builds up over the course of the student’s education at the universities. This way when the students do graduate and leave the university, they will have money to help them get started and on their feet.  In Higher Education; Not What It Used to be by The Economist, there are many examples of how students start and end school in debt and how hard it is for students “Those who earned a bachelor’s degree in 2011 graduated with an average of $26,000 in debt, according to the Project on Student Debt, a non-profit group”.  As seen in the graph, the average amount of debt has risen exponentially over the year.  If colleges would be willing to help the students save money on the side while also contributing towards the school, students could come out of the university in less debt and set in a better situation.

There are two very important stakeholders that my proposal would target. The student body and the universities themselves would be the main stakeholders that would need to be targeted in this proposal.  This problem affects all students who aren’t on a full ride scholarship or at a community college.  When it comes down to it, a college is nothing without its students to pay for it. The negative part of this solution is paying a little more than the tuition already. If the students were to comply with the solution, then the students would be beneficial when coming out of college with money ready for them.

The Second stakeholder is of course, the Universities themselves. The universities would need to comply to when they were to raise tuition, a portion of the tuition would be put away for every student.  The negatives to the proposal for the universities is slightly less income to the school directly. The positives to this proposal for the universities is possible partnerships with more banks. This could also make the school profit if partnerships were to happen. Students would be happier with this solution than to just pay the full raised tuition and not get anything out of it. Over all this solution’s benefits outweigh the down sides tremendously, with both students and school benefitting, the average debt of students coming out of college would drop immensely.

Blog Post 2

In Ethics in Higher Education I chose to read articles about the cost of college, student loans, and the cost benefit of going to college. Specifically,  I read Higher Education: Not What It Used to Be written by an anonymous author for the Economist, 9 Unbelievable Student Loan Horror Stories by Mandi Woodruff written for Yahoo! Finance Business Insider, and A Question of Honor by William Chance written for the American Scholar. For P2 I am interested in writing about the issue of the cost of a college education and how difficult it can be to pay for. Student loans, scholarships and grants only help so much, and can be difficult to earn or pay back. From reading these articles I learned that receiving loans is not easy and can cost in more than money. Also, I learned that the benefit of paying for college is not worth what it costs a lot of students. Furthermore, I learned that the inability to pay for college can lead to less honorable work completed by students. Through reading all of these articles, I mostly learned that paying for college is not easy and sometimes is deemed not worth the work it takes.

I would like to solve the problem of how difficult it is for students to receive help when paying for college. I would like to solve this problem because a lot of students struggle with paying for college and the opportunities to pay for it aren't available to all students. Also, the trade offs to receive aid are not worth it, like the risk of dropping out or being unable to pay them back. A solution to this problem may be starting payback program for students that begins 6 months after graduation. This amount of time would give the students time to get a job and be able to begin paying for college. It would be like a loan program, but run by the university and the time to start payments would be delayed to benefit the students while they transition into the “real world”. This program would relieve a lot of stress students feel due to the cost of college. Further, more students would be able to attend college and get a college education, being able to better their future.

I would like to target Tony Frank for my P2 proposal. This is a logical audience for this proposal because Tony Frank has influence on Colorado State University as he is the president of the University. He has the power to implement this plan and make it a reality. As the president he would have the power to change what needs to be changed to fix this problem. This issue is exigent for this audience because the issue is a present issue that will only get worse if no one does anything to improve it. As it is currently happening and if nothing is started to fix it, nothing will be done to end it and the numbers of students able to attend college will drop.

Blog 2

The topic that I chose for P2 is online courses. Due to the recent advancements in technology and the wide range of access, online courses have become more of a normal means of education. It’s exigency comes from the difficulty and previous methods that come with taking online classes. Some of those difficulties are unskilled instructors, web page organization, and student teacher collaboration.  An article from the EHE that illustrates the issue to great length is “Combating Myth About Distance Education.” Previously an option for P1, Gilman discusses the current issues that have risen from common misconceptions of online courses. The problem that most interests me is the lack of unskilled instructors who try take on the challenge of distance education. Another great source from the EHE is the article entitled “Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States.” It consists of many easy to read visual aid which describes everything from current enrollment to future strategies. 

There are a couple solutions I have in mind that could be used for this proposition. One includes a training program for current, conventional instructors that outlines the difficulties, methods, course design, and communication of online classes. The course will ensure that all online instructors are knowledgable and confident in their conventions to carry out a successful class. In addition, there will be a committee which oversees the operation and feedback from each class to ensure every course is operating at its full potential. This would encourage instructors to meet at set of standards to maintain stability within the department. The committee would also provide strong support for the instructors and students to quickly solve any issues that may occur. 

The target audience would be a university education administrator. Implying they have a significant amount of background experience, they should have the knowledge of what is best for the students and the program. The position would be high enough to ensure proper execution and funding the program will need, therefore, the proposal must be formal and clear in it statements and objectives. Organization is also an important aspect of the piece. Structured in a way that is concise, the reader would be able to clearly differentiates each section and its given purpose. 

The intro would include short background knowledge about online courses (assuming the audience already knows about the topic given their current position in the education field) followed by the problem statement which fully states each of the components of the issue. This will essentially be the purpose. Next, the objective would include a possible solution the statement given in the objective. It would include each aspect of the solution as well as how it it would one implemented. Then the benefits would be why the stakeholder would invest in the issue and what could they get back in return. The proposal would conclude with the anticipated outcome of the solution including if the classes would be popular or not and the effects it will have on education in general. 

Blog Post 2

Blog Post #2: Preparing for P2

In the EHE, the articles I read were “Higher Education: Not What It Used to Be” and “UC Student Investment Proposal” which talked about tuition costs. For P2, the issue I am most interested in is to come up with a solution with the rising costs of tuition for Colleges across the country. Making a comprehensible solution for those who have a hard time paying for College during and after enrollment could really make an impact. Lowering the costs for receiving higher education would help out thousands if not millions of people who are thinking of attending college and those who already are, including myself.

A solution I thought about that can help fix this problem is to relocate a small percentage of funds that go directly to military services. In 2015, US Government spent $598.5 billion dollars just in the military. This is an incredible amount of money but at the same many would consider it somewhat ridiculous. Relocating some of this money to the education system would lower the costs of attendance for all students. Since Colleges would be receiving more funding from the Government, they won’t be obligated to keep rising the cost of tuition every single year to keep up with the maintenance and spending of such school, thus making students to not take out as many loans throughout the course of their studies.

There are two main stakeholders that I would target with such a proposal. Congress politicians and students themselves. When it comes to students, all university costs directly affect them. They are who have to somehow manage their spending in order to pay for tuition or loans after they graduate. Having students give such a solution a “voice” could help in being one step closer in to making a change for tuition costs across the country. Even though students are the main audience this is directed to, this is more of a trickling down effect. With students making a movement towards this topic, it would affect the schools directly. Universities are nothing without the students, and if they keep rising tuition, enrollment could decrease each year. This topic will just be getting bigger and bigger until eventually students will start to defy their own schools. A few examples have already happened, such as the incident in UC Davis in 2011 which led a faculty member of such school, to write a letter directly to the chancellor.

The other stakeholder would be Congress politicians. All the government funds received every year, Congress is who decides what percentage of these funds go respectively to each area. Having a reasonable proposal that may be considered by such entity could bring many benefits. With universities receiving more funding from the government, they won’t need to charge students such high tuition fees. Making a higher education more affordable for the average American, more people receiving such education means that the literacy of the country would go up, thus having more opportunities to improve the economy itself. This would not only benefit students, but in a medium-long term, would also benefit the country itself.

Blog Post 2

                  In Ethics of Higher Education, I decided to read articles with information regarding high tuition rates. These texts included UC Student Investment Proposal, College Grads Struggle to Gain Financial Footing, Students are Already Workers, 9 Unbelievable Student Loan Horror Stories, Graduating in Debt, The Path to Student Debt, For-Profit Colleges Under Fire Over Value, Taming the Fort-Profit College Monster, and What’s Money Got to Do with it: The Appeal of the For-Profit Education Model. I am interested in the problems of high tuition rates and student debt because it is a topic that involves myself as well as a lot of my peers directly. As I develop a proposal for this issue, I believe lowering tuition costs would make the most sense. How to accomplish that brings up the controversy of ideas. For example, in the article Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B Katehi, UC Davis attempted a movement for the rising student fees and their protest was bombarded by the police, injuring students and faculty and stripping them of their freedom of speech. This “solution” of protesting just made another serious problem arise. Perhaps a nationwide movement would be beneficial, having state schools across the country work together (students and faculty) and from there working on universities and private schools. The police can not attack every single state school unified as one. Having schools across the nation be unified would bring more attention to the issue compared to just one university trying to make a difference. More attention brings more change.

            The largest stakeholder in this proposal would be targeted towards the students directly. The problem affects them the most and the students hold the majority of the power in college. With no students, there would be no income and no jobs. Students are also the main people that have to deal with debt prior and after graduate. For a lot of individuals, they are required to pay for school themselves, too. This is roughly 30,000 dollars a year for individuals in the range of 18-22 with no steady income yet because of their lack of a diploma. You need money to go to school, but school completion to make that money.

            University’s are close to nothing without their student bodies. If campus’s do not have a population they are unable to keep themselves afloat with any type of financial income. Every part of the faculty would no longer serve a purpose if a student body population was not present. I believe that faculty cares a great deal about their students, therefore they would provide support to the students fighting for reasonable tuition rates. It can be argued that, with lower tuition rates more people would be able to afford school. This would cause a population increase that would ultimately level out the difference seen in the cut of tuition. The articles in Ethics of Higher Education serve outlines with details on experts that have examined this particular issue even closer. They point out exact numbers that are important for logical facts according to the issue.

Blog Post #2- Bailey Beeman

In Ethics in Higher Education, I chose to read the articles involving Greek life and the culture that surrounds it. The article I was specifically interested in was Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy: Inside Dartmouth’s Hazing Abuses written by Janet Reitman. The ‘Ivy League Frat Boy’ in the article is Andrew Lohse, former student and fraternity member at Dartmouth College. Of the problems surrounding Greek life, I was most intrigued by hazing rituals within fraternities and even more specifically, hazing rituals within Andrew Lohse’s chapter, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. While the article mainly focuses on Dartmouth’s Greek life, hazing and abuse of new pledges is a prominent issue throughout fraternities all across the country and needs to be stopped. In chapters across the nation, new pledges or potential new members are forced into inhuman tasks and must complete these tasks in order to be a part of the ‘brotherhood’ as described by Andrew Lohse. Because it is such a dangerous act that is so common, a monetary system is essential in insuring the safety and appropriateness of fraternity recruitment.  While it may seem as though colleges keep a close eye on their Greek chapters, that is often not the case; many colleges are not affiliated with their Greek chapters, therefore, they do not have set rules or monitory responsibilities. In Colorado State’s case, Greek life is closely affiliated with the campus and strict rules are often enforced because of it. A solution to hazing rituals may come from the college campus’ themselves; if all colleges were affiliated with their Greek life, they would enforce stricter rules which would lead to less hazing. If every college took the movement to affiliate with their Greek community, rules could be put in place and consequences for breaking these rules would go through the campus officials. In this case, the targeted stakeholders are university officials and Greek life organizers because they could play a massive role in putting an end to hazing, abuse, and the effects of fraternity recruitment. This issue is urgent because of people like Andrew Lohse who have gone through fraternity recruitment hazing as well as enforcing the abuse on the new pledges. Many of these men know that they are wrong in forcing such inhuman acts, yet they have no comfortable way of speaking out against their fraternity or brotherhood. Hazing within Greek communities is a vicious cycle and will be until action is taken and stricter rules are placed upon recruitment processes. Campus officials and Greek life organizers are the most logical audiences for this proposal because they can take action and get involved in making a difference. I firmly believe that hazing in major fraternities on the Colorado State campus is not a massive issue because Greek life is closely associated with our campus. If every college took the initiative to be affiliated with fraternities/sororities and imposed common rules, the Greek community would truly be a place for brother and sisterhood, instead of a place of fear and uncertainty.