As college graduation season gets under way, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance and The Daily Ticker are teaming up to produce a special live streaming event on May 23 at 12:30 pm ET around the rising cost of college. During the live event we will have a panel of experts who will be answering questions from students and parents. We'll chose a few good ones from our Answers Community. Check back here for the link!
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Why have college costs risen at a rate that has consistently outpaced inflation?
Anonymous
the first thought that came to my mind upon reading this post was
1. WHY is college tuition fee is America ridiculously expensive? WHY do colleges need so much money? A college is NOT a company like Apple or Microsoft.
My sister will graduate from her 4 years of university soon and the total coast of tuition pee paid during those 4 years....is OMG too much.
the amount is almost as much as the U.S. national debt.
2. do colleges REALLY need a lot of money?
3. America is currently facing an economic crisis; it is predicted to be one of the worst ever in U.S. history.
So unemployment is a rising issue, the economy is getting spoiled and there are more innocent citizens suffering beneath the poverty line.
And i am NOT against the government but the federal government doesn't seem to be sorting it out well.
I don't know that much about the ecnonomy, so I learned from my sister (she's a business / economics major) and i can tell that the nation, the economy and so on are all facing a crisis.
Soo....i don't know but unless the government promises to like help the poor pay for college or something I strongly suggest that colleges DO NOT raise tuition fees.
Otherwise...America will face an even worse educational crisis.
Does the stuff I typed make sense? hope it does. And......the good news is that the expensive tuition fee paid to a great college was actually worth it since my sister got a great job 2 weeks before graduation.
Anonymous
accept it and find ways to adjust your spending and methods of education but maybe the best way to really solve some of the problem is to do something that could work. Example, stop using the university services. I mean really stop and let the purveyors of the rising costs figure out what will they do now that their income is dwindling. Now work it out. Educate yourself some other way or teach others or hire others and change up the job specs so the program can work. Stop repeating the same cycle. We saw this so often in earthquake predictions. Thankfully those doom and gloom impending disasters are not repeated so much on the news anymore but in the 70's and 80's and for awhile after the big quake in '89 newscasters beat that drum like an old dusty rug. The quakes will come, I know, but give it a rest until something can be actually predicted accurately. Same it is with the cost of education. If the cost goes up exorbitantly, stop dealing with the shysters and find some other sources.
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Anonymous
Very well. Not to be rude or disparaging but we fool ourselves with these pat question and answers. Why? Because most are continually asked and debated year in and year out with little change in the answers or in the outcome. In other words, costs go up. You can beat around the bush all day but if prices start going up, ask the merchants who raise the price why. Wrestle with it or accept it and find ways to adjust your spending and methods of education but maybe the best way to really solve some of the problem is to do something that could work. Example, stop using the university services. I mean really stop and let the purveyors of the rising costs figure out what will they do now that their income is dwindling. Now work it out. Educate yourself some other way or teach others or hire others and change up the job specs so the program can work. Stop repeating the same cycle. We saw this so often in earthquake predictions. Thankfully those doom and gloom impending disasters are not repeated so much on the news anymore but in the 70's and 80's and for awhile after the big quake in '89 newscasters beat that drum like an old dusty rug. The quakes will come, I know, but give it a rest until something can be actually predicted accurately. Same it is with the cost of education. If the cost goes up exorbitantly, stop dealing
jim g
Here is a nicely framed question as many or even most are. Very well. Not to be rude or disparaging but we fool ourselves with these pat question and answers. Why? Because most are continually asked and debated year in and year out with little change in the answers or in the outcome. In other words, costs go up. You can beat around the bush all day but if prices start going up, ask the merchants who raise the price why. Wrestle with it or accept it and find ways to adjust your spending and methods of education but maybe the best way to really solve some of the problem is to do something that could work. Example, stop using the university services. I mean really stop and let the purveyors of the rising costs figure out what will they do now that their income is dwindling. Now work it out. Educate yourself some other way or teach others or hire others and change up the job specs so the program can work. Stop repeating the same cycle. We saw this so often in earthquake predictions. Thankfully those doom and gloom impending disasters are not repeated so much on the news anymore but in the 70's and 80's and for awhile after the big quake in '89 newscasters beat that drum like an old dusty rug. The quakes will come, I know, but give it a rest until something can be actually predicted accurately. Same it is with the cost of education. If the cost goes up exorbitantly, stop dealing with the shysters and find some other sources.