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.