My parents ingrained into me that education is of the utmost importance. Educating myself is one of my goals. There is a gap in my achievement due to some unfortunate events, but even during my circumstances I still attempted to get my degree. I have worked tirelessly to get to where I am today. My journey is just the beginning. I have a long way to go and I am not about to squander my second chance. I have always encouraged others to achieve this goal, as well. Even at GCC their educational system has changed. This time around when I was registering they wanted a specific goal in my degree instead of general education. However, tuition is extremely more expensive than when I first admitted myself into college.
The article states that former Gov. Doug Ducey wanted a more educated state, with his goal of making Arizona have at least 60% of its residents with higher education. How he did this is funding more for in this year’s budget, we added $142 million to K-12 education – above and beyond the voter-approved Proposition 123. For universities, we approved an additional $38 million.Gov. Doug Ducey His stance is wanting us as a community to help achieve this goal of education ourselves. The other article states how much of a pay gap it is when you have educated yourself compared to when you have not completed a high school diploma. The second article discussed how much someone would make if they did achieve that degree. Arizona is on the scale against the national average; it is about $2,000 less. Bachelor's degree: $61,392, Graduate or professional degree: $78,782, High school graduate or equivalency: $36,792, and less than a high school degree: $30,398. Parrish, Madeline
I am all for a higher education, but there is a caveat to this goal. Former Gov. Doug Ducey fails to state how he is going to motivate students to go to college. The total cost for four years of ASU tuition, room and board, and books and supplies for in-state students is $114,944, based on the 2022-23 school year. This is higher than the national average of $102,828. Sofi Both articles give the facts about what it looks like when you have that degree. Unfortunately, these articles are slightly misleading and did not give more information on how this is even achievable. Both articles failed to discuss the actual cost of a college tuition.
I believe in higher education , but the problem also is it is expensive, considerably more than when I first went to college in 2009. The tuition almost doubled for two classes rather than four. Yes, achieving higher education is a must to have the “American Dream” but how is it going to happen when student loan debt is at an all time high and people with these degrees cannot even find a job. We spend all this time and effort pushing ourselves to achieve this goal but we still have a lot more work to do then just pushing our students for higher education.
Hello Corina! I completely agree with you when you said that the websites could be a little misleading. Yes, they provided us information on where they want the education system in AZ and how important it is, but failed to explain how a low-income student is supposed to pay for college tuition.
ReplyDeleteI touched base with this as well. How he mentioned putting more money into our education system and budget, just to cut it two years later. That lead to mass strikes in our education system. It is so costly to get a higher education that people are still paying off their student debt decades later.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your thoughts about this You make a good point about the finance part of obtaining a higher education. Many students are starting to drown in debt because of cost of tuition for higher education.
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