Argumentative Essay On College Education

On the 2016 Presidential Election Campaign trail, the candidates faced a multitude of new hot­button topics that were becoming more and more important to the Millennial generation, as many were beginning to vote for the first time. Questions were fielded in debates or town hall meetings about items such as police brutality, racial and sexual discrimination, the distribution of wealth, the gender wage gap, LGBTQ rights, and so on. Perhaps one of the most resonating issues was thrust into the limelight by Senator Bernie Sanders (I­VT) on the future of the financial aspects of college education. However, the Sanders plan is unfeasible because there are no measures in place to measure student wastefulness and the cost of classes is a fraction the

It most commonly refers to lowered or no tuition fees included at all in the final bill of higher education. For example, the flagship “free education” policy in the US is New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s magnum opus, the Excelsior Program. This was a program that was hailed by Democratic members as the direction that the country needed to pursue; however, there are some catches. The first is that it is a last­resort measure for students who could not procure a meaningful scholarship otherwise, and that they only cover what isn’t paid by TAP, a state­funded scholarship program for high performing seniors, and Pell grants, a federal system of funds to pay for college that is not paid back (Abdul­Alim 8). This essentially means that anyone who aspired to go to college in the first place with whatever scholarships they earned, would have hardly used the benefits of Excelsior, rendering it virtually useless to achieving

Any college graduate can affirm that the cost of attendance is only a fraction, often less than half, of the total cost of time in university. The Excelsior Program does not address matters of room, board, and textbooks to name a few. These values add up over time and often do exceed initial tuition, which will cause already low­income students to still have to take on student debt in order to meet basic living conditions (Kelchen 947). In the grand scheme, at four­year universities, a student’s debt would consist of only about 40% classroom fees alone; the remaining 60% is divided among meal plans, classroom materials, and smaller expenses like gas money, which all add up over the course of education.
Thirdly, there would be little to stop student wastefulness and over­the­top habits. In the case of meal plans, it would make sense to give the student the bare minimum of a plan as a regulation, but people’s bodies need all act differently and the bare minimum plans often don’t cover at least two meals a day. As another example, what were to happen if a student were to enroll for four years of study but drop out or flunk two or three years in? The