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.