Students Covering Bigger Share of Costs of College

Students Covering Bigger Share of Costs of College by Kate Zernike Published: January 15, 2009 Website: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/us/16college.html?_r=2


I realize that I said I was going to follow the St. Paul Pioneer Press for my newspaper, but I couldn't resist posting this story (I got it from another story off the Pioneer Press).


The artice, published in the New York Times, was about how college students are paying more to educate them.



As we all know, everything is going up, including education. Notice how public schools, like the University of Minnesota, is almost as expensive as attending a private college (for example, St. Thomas and Hamline University. We've heard something called "gas gouging" since gas keeps going up for no reason. I think we should call this college price gouging. My family keeps telling me how it cost about $130 dollars a semester to attend. And that was a lot of money!


“Students are paying more, and a greater share of the costs, but are arguably getting less,” said Jane Wellman, the executive director of the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability, which drafted the study. I find it interesting that we, as college students, are paying more and getting less quality, meaning that we are not getting a high quality college education as we (meaning our parent's generation) once were. I know instructors say "students get out of a class what they put into it" but even that seems to be redundant. Although the politics that instructors try to spoon feed to their students also play a roll in poor college education.