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.