Transfer Students Feel the Pinch When Money Is Tight

not just for the money

There's a point here I'd like to make. Obtaining a 4yr degree for many isn't just to get the best pay, if that is the case, then you are likely to be dissappionted, or find yourself going back to school, as most of my fellow parents, classmates, friends, and neighbors are. However, for those who have never been to college and always wanted the chance, but because of a variety of diffents reasons, including, low academic acheivements, low to no income, first generation college students, unplanned children, and or illnesses etc. Obtaining a 4year degree is a since of accomplishment at best. Whether the pay will equal the time and money it took to achieve it is irrelevent. My point is best illustrated in the movie, "homeless to Harvard." Many outside circumstances does not dictate the end result, some of our most profoundly intelligent americans will matricate from the most improvish dysfunsional families.....

forget a 4 year college

This goes to show how a 4 year degree is becoming obsolete and a burden. A recent article on msn stated that almost 60 percent of America's workforce, those with college degrees, are working in positions in which they are over qualified for. Many positions do not even require a college degree.

GO TO VOCATIONAL SCHOOL! There are many excellent vocational programs out there and now is the time to join. Since many trade workers will be retiring soon there is a great need for people with special skills: like electricians, crane operators, and welders, to replace the workers who are retiring.

In the medical industries field there is a great shortage of MRI techs, Radiology Techs, EEG techs, RN's (even with a 2 year voc liscense), surgical techs etc. And don't forget about the computer industry. (Think about Bill Gates.)

Also there are a lot of excellent on line schools out there that offer just as much as the brick and morder schools do but for a much less price.

We as a country need to stop the strangle hold that 4 year universities and colleges have on us. As someone who is suffering with student loan debt even many years after graduating from an overpriced over inflated 4 year university, I know the importance of giving my children the advantage of training for a good job without the burden of large student loan debt. With the US fluctuating job market, it is often a crap shoot on wheither or not one can find a high enough paying job to payback his/her student loans. If one cannot, forget about any kind of financial future such as being able to buy a house. There are many, like me, who are working in jobs in which we do not even use our 4 year degree(s). When I first started working in the health care field no one cared that I had a BA degree in Journalism. That would not even get me a job as a Patient Services Rep. I had to work my way up to that. What hospital employers cared about is what kind of experience I had. Up to 45% of us are working in jobs in which are degrees do not apply.

So unless you are going onto law school, medical school, or a career in social work. Forget about it.

It is time as a nation that we stopped letting 4 year institutions of learning bleed us dry.

Budget Woes make it more difficult to achieve a college degreee..

"State economies continue to flounder, and as schools prepare for more tough times, many admit that the end of troubles—for both traditional and transfer students—is nowhere in sight."

And yet, the illegal alien apologists have decided that this is the time to push for the "rights" of undocumented students to access a shrinking and competitive resource.

It is becoming increasingly more difficult for qualified and talented US citizens to achieve a college degree, based on rising costs, reduced aid and a faltering economy. Why would we want to rob our own legacy to reward those who defied the rules and came here illegally? It defies imagination.

Now is perhaps the time to enact federal standards for all schools that receive federal aid that in order to matriculate, you must either be a US citizen, legal permanent resident, or a lawfully admitted foreign student with proof of income to be self-sufficient and a guarantee (perhaps posting a bond) that the student will leave the US upon graduation as agreed?

The good side to this is that standards for admission will increase, something that is long overdue. Not everyone is cut out for college, and those who can't maintain a decent B average, shouldn't be wasting taxpayer resources.

I find it ironic that you would choose to report on the budget cuts to universities and colleges nationwide,and the increased hurdles that deserving US citizens face in securing an affordable college education, while at the same time, publishing an article that tries to emotionally advocate for open access to higher education by illegal aliens.

The impact of government budget cuts on higher institutions of learning only confirms that college education is heavily subsidized by the taxpayer, and it is a privilege, not a RIGHT.

It is time to get real about this issue and make sure that this tax payer subsidy is available ONLY to bonafide US citizens, legal permanent residents and foreign/exchange students with proper visas and proof that they can maintain themselves without being a burden on the US taxpayers.