Economic news has been blazing with the nation wide tuition hikes that are being implemented. It is unconstitutional for a state to run a deficit budget; so, they must make adjustments to balance budgets. The unbalance budgets of several states have caused rash and harsh increases in the cost of education. Public Universities are being hit the worst having to pass more expenses down to students. An example of the extreme price hikes are the tuition fee seen in the state of Arizona. Four years ago tuition at the university of Arizona was $5,037 starting this fall tuition will have had a 100% increase and will be $10,035. The cuts to education are direct effects of the recession. Since 2008, 428 million have been cut from Arizona’s education budget. To weaken the severity of our recent recession, the government issued stimulus packages to public universities. The funding will decease for Florida this year. Florida Universities now have to somehow find funding to cover the 140 million that was received in previous years. To cover theses losses Florida State Universities have hiked tuition 15%. I feel that students that have displeasure with increasing tuition fees should take action. Decisions on state budget are made by state politicians. For students to make changes to the way the budget is divided, students have to vote and know what those politicians’ goals are. Voters have the power to decide how, when, who, and, how tax dollar are spent.
Thats nuts fsu is gonna charge the kids there an extra 15% tuition. Whats going to happen is people are going to not become students full time and just take 1 or 2 classes at a time so they don't spend a huge chunk of their budgets. Also they are cutting scholarships and grants. My friend has the pell grant and when we started at spc it was around 5000 dollars and now its been cut three times and it is no at $2000 or so.
ReplyDeleteYea that's not good at all. Too bad we can't get in there and change it ourselves, voting can only go so far. People can lie about what they say they will do and do whatever they want when they get into office.
ReplyDeleteIts not just FSU going up 15%, all Public Florida schools are jumping rates 15% this fall. But on the whole, while it sucks, its not unesxpected. When I first went to school in 99, the rates were basically the same as they are today. Instead of small increases each year we just saw one large jump to make up for the lack of rate raising over the past 15 ish years.
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