Are Colleges Worth The Price Of Admission Essay

Is college a beautiful illusion of that if we go then all our problems in life won’t be so hard or is it actually is a place people go to shape and mold themselves into better people. Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, in their essay, Are Colleges Worth the price of Admission? Says that whether or not you go to a public or private institution, the cost of attending college has doubled, compared to when our parents and every other generation before us went to college. They went on and made a few good point by saying how schools should engage the students more, also how they should replace tenure with multiyear contracts, but their arguments about postgraduate training and spreading donations around is where they might had begun to lose their

One of their strongest points just might be when they mentioned how tenure should be replaced with multiyear contracts. “Professors who possess it have no reason to improve their teaching, take on introductory courses, or, in fact, accept any tasks, not to their liking.” (Hacker and Dreifus 181). Some might argue better yet some will argue that “if he/she has been teaching a long time then they deserve to be granted tenure”, but wouldn’t it be better for our future and our children’s future if those who continues to teach well just kept their job. Providing tenure to teachers enables some to not try anymore. Yes, we all know that one teacher who gives his/her all no matter what the case might be, but the old saying “one bad apple spoils the bunch” most definitely reigns true in this case. For example, there are teachers who do what they have to do in order to receive tenure and once they have it they feel

One cannot simply tell someone else how to spend their money, even if it is what’s best for the village. Money is a sensitive issue. Donors feel as if “it’s my money I spend it how I like” and they have every right to put their hard earn into whichever program the see fits best. Yes, giving the money to a program that has a very nice size budget would not be ethically good if it is a department that has a tight budget, but that department needs to find other ways to get donations and grants. So that they can produce high earning alumnus that gives