One of the main first world struggles of this decade is the cost of a higher education. The cost for college tuitions is quickly rising every year, therefore, people are less likely to strive for college due to cost. Unfortunately ordinary mundane jobs like McDonald’s or Pizza Hut are starting to requiring college education for more high paying positions. Even so, college enrollments are dropping 69% to 66% in 2008-2013 ( JP. “What are the odds of succeeding with a college degree?”). With all this it seems pretty evident that Free Education would be the very best option, but what are the effects of Free education on ourselves, the colleges, our communities, and the economy? It’s true that higher education has benefits on the individual, but with free education there can possibly be massive cons that not only affect the students, but the school itself. To understand how cons you need to know how colleges get funding in the first place. Most colleges, excluding privately owned and community colleges, get there money from the state and tuition fees. Both are needed to run a college; bigger colleges that hold more people and need more state funding and higher tuition fees. On average state and local funding has been growing 5.7% between 2013 and 2014 reaching 86.3 billion dollars and tuition fees have grossed colleges on average of 64.3 billion dollars (Allie Bidwell. “The ‘New Normal’ of Higher Ed Funding”). Even with all this money colleges are still dependent on tuition since it makes up more that 40% of all funding based on the previous article.
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Now let 's say that education is 100% free, now the state has to pay over 40% more that it already does to fund public colleges. Sadly the state can only give so much and chances are it won’t be able to fill that margin. Colleges would have to provide less services to students like dorms and food, professors get paid much less, and updating textbooks every year would be nearly impossible. Our public schools are state and locally funded and they don’t get near enough money to get everything they need. Basically you just gave majority of colleges and universities the same quality and funding as the public school you’re in right now. The college would suffer dramatically. What about the student attending the college? Students would be most likely denied on the spot. Now that college is free everybody would rush to attend at the same time. With the state not being able to pay for all the dorms, textbooks, and classes, a lot of kids wouldn’t be able to attend. The most likely option the school would have to take is to only accept the very smartest and the richest. Grades determine how much funding a school gets, so if a student is riding on a C average than the college would look for someone else, because they need A’s and maybe a few B’s sp the state can recognize this college and give them more funding. As of the rich students, the college would discreetly brown nose and beg for some extra funding, so the rich would get a free pass no matter their grades. To sum up the college experience in this free education hypothetical this is how it would seem; I have all A’s so now me and my rich and smart class of 23 kids are going to learn from these textbooks from 2014 and eat the same lunch they give in public schools, than 5 of my friends are gonna cram ourselves in our 2 pearson sized dorm and go to sleep. We now are informed how free education affects us and the school, but what happens to the community around us. Well, State funding is now increased so now the smaller communities in the state get little to no money from the state, so there would be a spike in community fundraisers. Fundraiser won’t pay off everything. Tornado just flew through the town destroying millions of dollars in property, that sucks, but the state is already paying big bills so the small towns would receive the bare minimum of what is needed. Not only that, but the state would have to
Now let 's say that education is 100% free, now the state has to pay over 40% more that it already does to fund public colleges. Sadly the state can only give so much and chances are it won’t be able to fill that margin. Colleges would have to provide less services to students like dorms and food, professors get paid much less, and updating textbooks every year would be nearly impossible. Our public schools are state and locally funded and they don’t get near enough money to get everything they need. Basically you just gave majority of colleges and universities the same quality and funding as the public school you’re in right now. The college would suffer dramatically. What about the student attending the college? Students would be most likely denied on the spot. Now that college is free everybody would rush to attend at the same time. With the state not being able to pay for all the dorms, textbooks, and classes, a lot of kids wouldn’t be able to attend. The most likely option the school would have to take is to only accept the very smartest and the richest. Grades determine how much funding a school gets, so if a student is riding on a C average than the college would look for someone else, because they need A’s and maybe a few B’s sp the state can recognize this college and give them more funding. As of the rich students, the college would discreetly brown nose and beg for some extra funding, so the rich would get a free pass no matter their grades. To sum up the college experience in this free education hypothetical this is how it would seem; I have all A’s so now me and my rich and smart class of 23 kids are going to learn from these textbooks from 2014 and eat the same lunch they give in public schools, than 5 of my friends are gonna cram ourselves in our 2 pearson sized dorm and go to sleep. We now are informed how free education affects us and the school, but what happens to the community around us. Well, State funding is now increased so now the smaller communities in the state get little to no money from the state, so there would be a spike in community fundraisers. Fundraiser won’t pay off everything. Tornado just flew through the town destroying millions of dollars in property, that sucks, but the state is already paying big bills so the small towns would receive the bare minimum of what is needed. Not only that, but the state would have to