Thursday, October 3, 2013

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.

1 comment:

  1. These are still quite general thoughts. You need to do more research. Read this article, for example -- it should help you understand the privatization connection:
    http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/10/16/outofstate

    It is pretty straight-forward: a state institution should ideally serve the state where it resides. But because of state cut-backs, the state schools have been freed up to increase out-of-state enrollments as a way of making up for those cut-backs. Rutgers, which used to enroll fewer than 5% out of state, is inching up toward 15% already -- and there has been discussion of going as high as 25%.

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