Rising College Tuition essays

Rising College Tuition essays The topic of rising college tuition costs is an issue that hits very close to home. Being a student, it is very hard to deal with attending a school that has high tuition costs. The University of New Hampshire has one of the highest tuitions for state schools in the country. For out of state students UNH is one of only 22 schools out of 575 listed on CollegeBoard.Com that costs more than $20,000 for tuition. This fact is a major problem today when more schools each year are raising their tuition costs for students. A few of the biggest points that CQ makes about rising college costs are wasted money on extravagant facilities, overpaid administrators, and under worked faculty. These issues are very serious, and they can be seen all over the country, even in the little town of Durham, NH. While UNH doesnt really have overpaid administrators in the half million dollar club we do have extravagant facilities as well as under worked faculty. To be fair though, the under worked faculty do seem to be under paid as well. UNH has been undergoing renovations on various class rooms and residence halls for the past 3 years, and in the past 3 years what do we have to show for it? We have an enormous residence hall, Mills Hall, which contains suite style living quarters for students. While students do enjoy the suite style housing, it does take up extra room that could have been better apportioned to a normal hall style, creating a great deal more beds. Then we have the newly renovated Congreve Hall, which was blessed with a central air system, however, this central air system has caused numerous water leaks and mold growths, even causing a student to have to be moved from their room so the walls could be re-sheet rocked. Then we have the new, incredibly large, dining facility, Holloway Commons. There can be no argument about it, that the new dining hall is a wonderful piece of architecture with many great interna...