Making tuition expenses higher and cutting off grants and scholarships is completely unfair. There are more people now than ever before who are returning to school because of budget cuts and layoffs. People always want a better future. When all possibilities of accomplishing that, it can be not only frustrating but very exasperating. Many people don’t want to finish school because of the amount of debt they may end up putting themselves in.
My family emigrated from El Salvador and had to work very hard to establish themselves here. I am a first generation college student and my family is too poor to deal with any college expenses. With the tuition increasing yearly, it is a miracle that I am still here. I am here because of grants and scholarships, but without those, all the money I would have had to pay would have had to repay in the end probably would have discouraged me from continuing my education.
Tuition hikes are harmful to everybody. It makes it impossible for people who want to educate themselves and who dream of having a better future to accomplish their goals when they cannot afford to go to school and cannot repay the loans in school.
It is difficult to imagine how people with just a high school diploma can manage to get jobs and support their family when getting and maintain jobs gets harder every year. The economy is not the same as it was 50 years ago. Education is important and pretty much the only way people are going to succeed their dreams of a better future. Passing highschool is not enough anymore. There needs to be a way that tuition can be lowered and more money given out to students so that they are not already overwhelmed by the debt they accumulated for going to college in hopes of acquiring a better future.
I completely agree. It is very helpful having programs that help first generation college students afford college, but the rise in tuition and cuts to grants are even affecting students with grants. More programs that help low-income and first generation college students are cut every year and the increase in tuition stretches the funded money even further, which causes these students to have to pay money out of their pockets when their funds do not cover everything. It is very unfortunate.
ReplyDeleteI am also a first year college student who is faced with an increasing debt every year, so I to have battle with continuing my education or stopping to go into the workforce to start repaying what I already owe. I also have a loving and supportive family and friends who remind me that gaining an education is priceless, so with every dollar are owe, I will gain the knowledge that will carry me pass my debt and beyond.
ReplyDeleteI am really glad to hear that you are a first generation college student. You are going to make a great example for the next generation of your family. So, don't let student debt stop you by you acquiring this debt in the long run it will better our society.
ReplyDeleteI agree it is completely unfair for a college education to cost so much. Now even Pell Grants are being affected too and I know that they have been the number one reason a lot of people I know have been able to even think about getting a college education. Even worse, I know of some scholarship programs that have also been terminated because the companies that sponsored them do not have the funds to allocate to them. So my question is, what happens if Pell Grants are done with and there are not enough remaining scholarships to help people out? Will an education only be for rich men/women?
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