Research Blog #8: Interview

For my interview I decided to interview someone who is experiences the problems of non-resident tuition. I interviewed Ashley Yehoda, a dance major from Pennsylvania. I found it interesting that for the most part we agreed with the ideas of how tuition is being distributed. However there were some ways that we did not agree. I feel that in those moments that we did not agree was because she was non informed of the research that I was informed of. 

Questions:

Do you feel that charging out-of-state students higher education necessary?

Would you say that out-of-state tuition hinders student from getting the kind of education that they truly desire?

Do you think that it is fair for public universities to consider themselves state institutions when a good amount of students are not from the state?

Would you think that it is fair to have equal tuition for both in-state and out-of-state students?

Answers:
1. I don't think higher tuition should be necessary for out of state students. We are receiving the same education as the in state students and we shouldn't have to essentially make up the difference of state taxes for a state we don't even live in.

2. It doesn't hinder the education we receive but it definitely discourages out of state people from wanting to come here.

3. If the university is at least partially funded by state taxes it can be considered a state university. At the same time though, if most of the university is attended by out of state students, it's unfair for there to be a difference in tuition.

4. Most definitely

Research Blog #9: Argument and Counter-Argument

The argument that I am proposing in my paper is that universities are being unfair to non resident students with what they are charging them for tuition. They expect these students to even out the funding that they do not have for the university just because they are not a resident of the state. They feel that residents should not suffer from the high charges of tuition because they pay the taxes that are funding the university. It would be unfair to charge the students double with taxes and tuition. “‘State universities were built with public and tax dollars — and for Mexicans, Asian-Americans and all the others [in state] — not to give them a priority, I think it’s outrageous,’ said Mitchem, whose organization seeks to expand college opportunities for the disadvantaged” These schools were built mainly for these residents to attend and it is only right to give non-residents higher tuition rates for attending the university. However this argument is outrageous. The tax dollars that the residents pay generally only help twenty percent of universities' funding. There is no way that that amount of money in tax dollars can equal up to the non-resident fees that students pay yearly. “State appropriations and aid account for less than 20 percent of Carolina’s $2.4 billion operating budget.” There is no way that it could be fair that you are serving the students of the state because they have earned the privilege when really they have done nothing.

Research Blog #7: Your Case

The case that I really want to make in my research paper is that tuition for residents and non-residents should be equal. Universities are charging non-residents such high rates to continue funding a school which I find to be unfair. The use of tuition is no longer about helping the school, but has become a political scheme. Universities are very concerned about having the right amount of funding to their school thrive. The quickest and easiest way universities felt they could solve the problem with funding was having non-residents pay a great amount of tuition to even the funding that is needed. Below I will show quotes, videos, and graphs that prove the case the I am making.

“state appropriations and aid account for less than 20 percent of Carolina’s $2.4 billion operating budget.”

“enrollment growth across the UNC system was fully funded, the legislature allocated $60 million for building repair and renovations, and legislatively mandated tuition hikes for out-of-state students were confined to undergraduates.”

“Over the past 30 years, SUNY has charged nonresident students an average of 2.4 times more than resident students”

“with public universities getting less of their funding from the states, it’s hard to argue that their priority should be state residents, according to Dr. Carlos Santiago, chief executive officer of the Hispanic College Fund”

“When schools shift to favor out-of-state students, says Nassirian, it drives the price of education up and makes it difficult for Hispanics, and minorities in general, to gain access to higher education.”

http://www.wbrz.com/videos/southern-drops-out-of-state-tuition/ 

Literature Review #5

Citation:
Baoyan, Cheng. "College Choices: The Economics Of Where To Go, When To Go, And How To Pay For It." 76.1 (n.d.): 110-120. Web. 24 Nov. 2013.

Summary:
The chapter that was most appealing to my work was chapter 7. This chapter is about the reason why universities charge so much for non-resident tuition. It also gave ways that universities could find funding that would help them continue to thrive as they should without having to be unfair to students. This book also gives ideas for students to have financial needs and grants to help them thrive in their college career without dealing with a lot of debt. 

Author:
Caroline M. Hoxby

Key Terms:
flagships, enrollment, grant aid, and revenue

Quotes:
"Legislators and their constituents may also prefer not to fund institutions directly because they may worry that the dollars will not go to the intended uses"

"Time will tell if [public higher education] will increasingly turn to out-of-state students' tuition revenues to fill the holes in their budgets."

Value:
This book gives great data to help understand the idea of tuition payments, enrollment, and the growth of tuition as well.

Research Blog 6: Visual

This graph is a demonstration of how tuition has become very unfair for non-resident students. This graph is a representation of the University of Washington's change in tuition. There is a clear tuition increase for non-resident student in just over 4 years, while tuition stays constant for residents. This graph shows how the increases of tuition have been really unfair. Non-resident students should not have to suffer in payments just to help fund a school.

Literature Review Blog #4

Citation:

Abbey, Craig W., Allison Armour-Garb, and Government Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of. "Nonresident Tuition And Fees At SUNY. Rates, Policies, And Consequences." Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute Of Government (2010): ERIC. Web. 26 Oct. 2013.

Summary:

This article is about the clear reasons why SUNY school system charges higher prices for non-resident tuition. It also states the benefits it has not only for the university but the benefits for the state as well. This article also gives information about other states and how their enrollment/pricing compares to the SUNY school system for the nonresident prices they charge.

Author:

Craig W. Abbey and Allison Armour-Garb

Quotes:

“An across-the-board approach to nonresident tuition increases could lead to increased revenues at some campuses, while at other campuses it might decrease revenues, undermine academic quality, and lead to economic losses in the regions where those campuses are located”

“Some small states, such as Delaware and Vermont, attract large numbers of nonresident students to their public research universities in order to have a larger institution, with a greater economic impact and a broader range of high-quality academic and athletic programs than their state could support alone.”

“Another reason may be that residents are more likely to remain in the state after graduation and thus contribute future tax revenues.”

“However, a nonresident tuition increase will not necessarily increase revenues. This is because prospective students are essentially customers who are going to decide to enroll only if they think the education they will receive is worth the asking price.”

“Typically, consumers do not consume more of a good as its price rises. However, as price increases, so does demand for certain high-end goods.”

Key Terms:

Demand, elasticity, revenue, and compare

Value:

This article is value to the work that I plan on doing for my research paper because it offers a lot of research numbers comparing the differences on nonresident tuition and all of the positive and negative effects it has on universities. 

Literature Review Blog #3

Citation:

Barnes, Bradley, and Michael S. Harris. "PRIVATIZATION INFLUENCES and STRATEGIC ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT DECISIONS IN PUBLIC RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES." College and University 85.4 (2010): 2-9. ProQuest. Web. 22 Oct. 2013.

Summary:

The issue of the market downfall had made a strong desire for universities to properly recruit out of state students that not only have strong academics but also have strong financial situation to help the universities become more attractive and competitive. The strong dependency of student enrollment is strongly because of the fall of state funding.

Author:

Bradley Barnes and Michael S. Harris

Key Terms:

Enrollment, privatization, market, dependency

Quotes:

“In effect, the ‘shift away from public funding has led to an increased emphasis on using strategic enrollment management to improve tuition revenue’ (St. John and Priest 2006, p. 4 4). This also places pressure on institutions to grow in size, reputation, and prestige.”

“Resource dependency encourages public institutions to seek sources of support to improve institutional quality in an attempt to become immune to the whims of the local statehouse. The efficacy of resource dependency in describing market-driven enrollment management continues to grow”

“A finance administrator explained, ‘Our budget structure and our endowments and development programs are much more in line with private universities than public universities, and I think we will continue to do that.’”

“Tuition revenues, along with the enrollment strategies used to obtain them, are powerful forces that assist market-driven universities in meeting budgetary shortfalls.”

“Such susceptibility to market influences increases the risk that decisions that once were campus-based instead will be market-based. The continuing decline of state support will only exacerbate and accelerate these trends.”

Value:

This article will establish the importance of non-residence funding that universities depend on and also why they depend on that funding due to the issues of tax issues. 

Literature Review Blog #2

Citation:

Hu, Helen. "State Colleges Seeking More Out-of-State, International Students Amid Fiscal Crunch." Diverse Issues in Higher Education 28.11 (2011): 21-2. ProQuest. Web. 22 Oct. 2013.

Summary:

This text is about the issues of colleges recruiting out of state students and how it is hurting in state minority students. As universities accept more students out of state to help fund their schools, they are hurting minority students by not giving them opportunities to attend a university. Most low income minority students are barely able to afford college for students that are in state and now they have to suffer without higher education because universities are starting to overpopulate with out of state students they recruit just to help the school get by.

Author:

HELEN HU

Key Terms:

Economy, funding, minority, growth/expansion

Quotes:

“The out-of-state students help subsidize the in-state students, officials say.”

 “’There are families who have chipped in for decades to support these universities — given vastly more than out-of-staters,’ he said. “I consider this one of the basic state services.”

“’What I object to is when the reason for having out-of-staters ceases to be educational and becomes purely financial.’ Could the out-of-state efforts squeeze out in-state minority applicants?”

“Alarm over the out-of-state growth has escalated as competition has sharpened to get into many state schools, especially flagships. UC-Berkeley”

“Santiago believes people don’t fault flagships such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison for aiming to become global institutions, with global impact.”

Value:

This article can prove how the high prices of out of state tuition not only hurts the students receiving the high prices but also the students in the state. They are losing spots to attend a state university that should be directed towards them because the university is more interested in admitting non-residences to help fund the school.

Blog #4 Research Proposal

Tameika Ramseur

Research in the Disciplines 201-College !

Professor Goeller

8 October 2013

Working Title: The Scam of Out of State Tuition

Topic

Out of state tuition has come to an all time high in the past few years. The government has given less funding to state universities and their way to continue funding is the process of privatization. Universities have become very dependent on the out of state students to pay higher prices just to keep the extra money for funding the school. Instead of trying to make a clear and fair tuition for all students, universities have increased their desire to recruit out of state students to be able to help with money desires that they not only need, but want. They rely on the desire of having out of state students to help with their finances so much that if they did  not have it schools would not be able to function without that tuition. In this paper I will talk about the reasons why universities feel the need to charge students extra and their theories behind what they have been doing.

Research Question

Do College and Universities charge out of state students a higher tuition rate to match what the government does not give them or do they make the charges to get as much funding as they possibly can? Is it possible to make funding for in state students and out of state students equal?

Theory

Originally the reason universities charged an extra amount of money to out of state students is because government funding directed universities to charge out of state students more in order to keep universities only for students in the state and decrease out of state students as much as possible. Now that universities nationwide have lost a great amount of government money for funding they are no longer restricted to the rules of the government for out of state tuition. Universities are trying to quickly grow their personal economy the easiest way possible and they know that out of students will not fight a tuition raise as much as in state students would. My question with trying to find easy funding is why universities will not set an overall tuition for all students to help fund the school since state governments funding is no longer a part of the university. It could be a shift that is fair. It is also more promising for funding. Relying on out of state recruitment is not a good strategy for university funding because they will not have a constant rate as they would with a general tuition.

Also nationwide people feel that students will never commonly go out of state if the rate was equal. If out of state attendance was a common things, then tution could become something that could be evened out for all students. Not only will this help a general financial state but it will also help students to have more opportunities to reach out to areas that they would like to explore. If we could open tuition on an equal playing field then there would be no restrictions with universities or students. Although it is a shift that will be hard to move through, it probably would be best long term economically.

The tuition raises for out of state students generally do not show much effect for the things that it does in the university. They spend the money on things that are not needed for the school. They do not focus on the things that could help the school grow and become a stronger school so they could produce better students entering the work field. If universities had a stable income from tuition they could possibly work things out for the university to have nothing but the best for the students so that they will be able to become as successful as they could be.

Research and Plan

For my research I plan on using the Rutgers Library resources to find articles that can help me find information on my topic. I am also planning on interviewing people for their opinion and personal experiences with out of state tuition to get an argumentative point in my research.

Working Bibliography

Economist, The. "How to Understand Out-of-state Tuition?" The Economist. The Economist Newspaper, 21 Oct. 2009. Web. 08 Oct. 2013.

IFTIKHAR, ALIYA. "Despite Freeze, Out-of-state Tuition May Increase." The Badger Herald. N.p., 15 Sept. 2013. Web. 08 Oct. 2013.

McGlone, Peggy. "Rutgers Makings Strides in Bid to Recruit Chinese Students." The Star-Ledger [Morristown] n.d.: n. pag. Print.

MEISTER, BOB. "Debt and Taxes: Can the Financial Industry Save Public Universities?" N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2013.

Pielke, Roger, Jr. "Commentary." The Chronicle of Higher Education. N.p., 24 July 2011. Web. 08 Oct. 2013.

Blog #5: Bibliography with Five Scholarly Sources

Works Cited

Economist, The. "How to Understand Out-of-state Tuition?" The Economist. The Economist Newspaper, 21 Oct. 2009. Web. 08 Oct. 2013.

IFTIKHAR, ALIYA. "Despite Freeze, Out-of-state Tuition May Increase." The Badger Herald. N.p., 15 Sept. 2013. Web. 08 Oct. 2013.

McGlone, Peggy. "Rutgers Makings Strides in Bid to Recruit Chinese Students." The Star-Ledger [Morristown] n.d.: n. pag. Print.

MEISTER, BOB. "Debt and Taxes: Can the Financial Industry Save Public Universities?" N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2013.

Pielke, Roger, Jr. "Commentary." The Chronicle of Higher Education. N.p., 24 July 2011. Web. 08 Oct. 2013.

Literature Review Blog #1

Citation

Pielke, Roger, Jr. "Commentary." The Chronicle of Higher Education. N.p., 24 July 2011. Web. 08 Oct.       2013.

Summary

This article is about the advantages that equal tuition could bring to the university system that is currently not available the in state and out of state tuition. He talks about the improvements that universities are given with the new concept that he has generated which could be very beneficial not only for the university but the improvement of education to the students attending the university.

Author

Roger Pielke Jr. is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder where he received his BA, MA, and PhD. He has worked very strongly in the science and weather field of studies. One of his interests that he has is making decisions of uncertainty. With Pielke being very familiar in the school system not only as a graduate but also a professor he can see how things can be very rigged in the tuition area. He also has written books in the economic area giving him a strong understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of the tuition policies that are in place currently.

Key Terms

Economic market-the author explains how equal tuition can help students, universities, and government if people will stop trying to stay in a traditional mind set.

Competition-The author is very concerned about college’s strategies for competition of getting the best students possible. Having the best students possible the author feels that the school does not have the equipment to educate these students

Quotes

“Colorado residents who will pay about $7,700 in tuition for the 2011-12 school year. The other third—out-of-state residents—will pay about $29,000 per year. The result is that almost two-thirds of the university's total tuition revenue comes from one-third of its students.”

Value

I feel that this article can help me with my research paper because it gives the idea of more options of how to fix out of state tuition. It gives options of what people can do to be able to pay for tuition with the advantages and disadvantages of equality of tuition.

“The same total revenue could be raised with a flat tuition rate of about $14,000, which would instantly make Colorado extremely competitive nationally and internationally, and immediately increase the quality of the student body by increasing the size of the applicant pool.”

“If we want to foster state goals of business development, an educated work force, and quality economic growth, we need policies that are in line with both the realities of the modern academic market and the role of government in higher education.”

Blog #3: How Might Privatization Connect to Your Topic?

Dealing with the social aspects of privatization that I have written about in my paper I have learned that sometimes schools can put a lot of pressure on the students. Connecting that to the topic that I will be writing about for my research paper I feel that privatization has a huge connection to out of state tuition issues. Most schools are selling students their university just to get their money to help fund the school that they are running. Just the way that students loan are selling their programs to students to get what they want to continue their company. The issues of privatization is that companies and universities only think about their own interest instead of the interest of the students and their company. This hurts a lot of students making school more difficult than it needs to be for students. The pressure that the students have to pay off the money they are dealing with a lot of issues socially that keep them distracted from what they really need to do in school. I feel that out of state tuition and for profit schools have really become about making money to fund their schools and not helping students out just as "Price of Admission" forced a student to take out a loan just so they can have more money, out of state universities are paying unnecessary money for schools just to help fund schools unnecessary needs.

Blog #2: Scouting the Territory

After looking up some articles about the two topics I was thinking about and reading the comments of my professor I have decided to choose out of state tuition for my research topic because it has a lot more discussion that goes along with the topic rather than facts. After reading a few articles I found it interesting how many other professors around the country feel that out of state tuition is a problem with funding schools. I also saw some interesting articles about charging in state immigrants an out of state tuition because of where they came from. With me being an out of state student myself I am interested in learning the reasons of the payments I am making and if it will get better or worse in the future.
Looking up articles on Google news I found some interesting articles using key phrases such as "selling the school". I thought it was interesting that they would raise the price of some less well known school to compete with the prices of well known schools to make their education seem equal. I thought that it was very interesting that people would compete out of state school wise by raising their tuition instead of lowering it. This is an idea of my topic that I would like to know more information on.
The three articles that I really looked into online that gave some different aspects of out of state tuition are listed below in their links. I think they all give some reasoning and discussion about out of state tuition and the different aspects that could cause the raising prices of tuition or why there is a significant difference between in state and out of state. I have yet to find any contradicting information on my topic. I am interested to come across the information as a look deeper into this topic.

http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/128371/
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2009/10/how_to_understand_outofstate_t
http://badgerherald.com/news/2013/09/15/despite-freeze-out-of-state-tuition-may-increase/

Blog #1: Topic Idea

I have been having some long debates with myself and asking for advise from other people for picking between the two topics I have come up with. One topic is abut the STD problem that is going on in schools. I would like to know more information on how some school rates are higher than others, the information that is being given out in schools about the issue, how my students care about the issue, and also is there a possible way to help prevent the issue. It is such a simple thing that could be fixed but because people do not take it seriously, a simple fix is now difficult to accomplish.
The second topic I have been thinking about is the price of out-of-state tuition mostly because I am an out-of-state student. I would like to know what am I paying for as an out of state student that cost thousands of dollars more than a student who lives in the same state does. I am also interested in gaining more information about how successful some out-of-state students are about finding ways to go around the system to pay in state tuition. Before the end of the week I will make a decision on what topic I would like to use for my paper and begin looking for information about it.