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Show College Costs Rise Who Pays Your Tuition? The debate over who should "pay my tuition" has long been fought and is still smoldering. Psychologists maintain that students appreciate the cost of education more if they have a paper route to pay next quarter's tuition. But many undergraduates still continue to correspond with their parents only through bank withdrawal slips. Who is to say which method is better? Surprisingly, some parents feel that tight budgeting of time and money on the student's part have adverse effects. ef-fects. The Educational Testing S.ervice recently conducted con-ducted a survey to determine parent's attitudes toward financing a college education. One father wrote "I do not believe any stud.ent should earn his entire way through college because he will not get the full benefits from his studies. I worked my way through college and was often of-ten too tired to study at night; consequently, my grades suffered. The sad part of it is that these grades are always al-ways on record but not how they were obtained." There are still some "old-fashion.ed" graduates of '34 who believe be-lieve that "if a person really wants an education, he will find a way to do it on his own." However long-term inflation and the recent sharp rise in college costs have made the matter of "who'll pay" a different dif-ferent story. Parents who have saved for years in anticipation antici-pation of a college education for their children find themselves them-selves outrunning preparations in order to meet expenses both in the family and at the university. Such a trend may result in attracting freshmen who can pay but who are not necessarily scholars. These students are good subjects for home movies where they are (pictured in a white lab coat shaking a beaker of distilled water. At this point parents of honor students who do not receive re-ceive scholarships become angered. One parent complained that although his son received no financial aid, he knew of some who had lower marks, whose parents were in a comparable com-parable income bracket, but who still received help. The theme behind parental opinion concerning the support sup-port they are willing to give towards their children's college education is repeatedly that the limit has been reached for family support of higher learning. If a parent is doing what he can to send his son to college and costs still continue to rise then, it is debated, the increase must be met from some other source. Perhaps this is an opportunity for government aid to fill a financial gap for many students who might otherwise be left helpless. Federal grants to research and scholarship funds have allowed students to continue what might have been a short-lived educational career. Therefore, it appears that today's question of who should finance higher education has in some cases passed beyond the responsibility of either parent or student because they can but partly meet the demands de-mands of higher costs. Government help appears most advisable. advis-able. But even if federal aid were not adopted it is apparent that help is going to have to come from somewhere-and soon. |
