Like any other state, South Carolina is suffering an economic downturn. One of the problems is that the state has a financial obligation to cover federal programs such as Medicaid and Medicare. This leaves the state with little to no funding for other state services. One of those state services includes higher education. Since most of the money that funds colleges and universities comes from the state and federal government, if that money is cut, the institutions have to find other means to gather the money they need. When this occurs, it makes higher education unaffordable for state residents. Besides causing tuition rates to rise, budget cutting causes institutions to cut programs and services, cancel professional development opportunities for faculty and staff, delay necessary facility renovations and construction, lay off employees etc. Due to this, it leads many to believe that budget cutting causes a decrease of quality for higher education. The purpose of this research article was to prove that it is difficult to maintain the quality of higher education while losing valuable resources. Brinkman and Morgan designed the study to identify a potential correlation between the budget cuts and the quality of South Carolina higher education. In the study, the participants were used from the state’s higher education system. It surveyed the people who were most familiar with higher education budgets. In this study, university administrators from 4-year public, 4-year private,
The state of California has long been reliant on the University of California system to provide its resident companies with skilled and educated business, technology, and science leaders. Highly regarded as one of the top educational systems in the world, the University of California boasts a high number of distinguished and respected faculty members in almost every field of study. However, while most private colleges and universities have learned how to streamline their processes in order to better respond to stakeholder needs, public educational institutions, such as the University of California, have not been willing to control their bureaucratic growth resulting in a rise of tuition rates and a decline in the level of student satisfaction. In her article for the TIME magazine, Kate Pickert writes that as recently as November of this year the University of California has approved a plan that could raise tuition rates by up to 28% (Pickert). Pickert also points out that the tuition rates at the University of California have more than tripled since 2001. The University of California has blamed the increased tuition on the state of California budget cuts caused by the economic downturn of recent years. However, a closer examination of the University of California faculty and administration data makes it obvious that the higher rates of tuition are cause by the inability and
Another challenge of the economic conditions was the increased importation of slaves. “But economically, South Carolina prospered… rice lands extended from the coast many miles inland” (Hoffer 15-16). In economic sense, this meant more profit for the colony, but increased in profit means increased in labor, therefore there was the need to enslave a lot of Africans and Natives to work on their plantation. The movements of slaves, good and commodities cross distant colonies and countries into the coast of Carolina. The only way for the colonists to meet their demands was to bring slaves. This tends to be a problem since the number of slaves outnumbered the number of whites in South Carolina which tends to signified fear as both Spain and British
South Carolinas' successful economy during early South Carolina didn't just fall from the sky. It required a lot of time and hard work. The Native Americans, European Settlers, along with enslaved and free African Americans were all a very significant part of the developing economy for early South Carolina.
Carolina had the support of other Southern states, South Carolina was the only one to nullify the tariff. South Carolina eventually agreed to a compromise, but nevertheless this state had challenged the federal government, creating a long-lasting effect of Southern states challenging the federal government’s power (Holt, Michael). It is interesting to note that the South did not disagree with every federal government decision.
The economic change had the most impact on the Southern life because the Southerners had nobody to work on their farm for them. It was such an impact because the slaves were the field hands. Some were skilled and some were unskilled, they usually did outdoor chores like farming and blacksmithing, in all kinds of weather.
Higher education is turn was directly affected by the shift in priority of legislature. While this is not a new concept it does reinforce how closely tied both are. Regarding capacity concerns the initial 2009 survey results noted 28 public flagship universities stated they had not capped their enrollment, 29, at public regional universities; while 12 reported they had capped enrollment. Of the 12 states that capped enrollment the majority of them were in the most populous states such as California, New York and Texas. Reviewers noted concern over if the community colleges will be able to handle the influx in high school and adult students with universities capping enrollment. Their concern is that it may not. The survey respondents showed disagreement in this area as well. That paired with the fiscal challenges noted in the survey prompted strong views from the reviewers. The article notes in“FY1981, 22 states contributed at least 50% of community colleges’ revenues, accounting for 55% of community college enrollments. By FY2001, only 7 states contributed at least 50% of community colleges’ revenues, accounting for 8% of community college students.” (Katsinas, D 'Amico, & Friedel 2014). By 2007-2009 this was not the case; education across the board suffered major midyear budget cuts across all states. These budget cuts affected how facilities were being managed at intuitions of higher learning. Funds for maintenance were being prioritized and
Looking into Clinton’s plan and how it would evolve over the next five years, the themes of access and affordability shine through. She believes that all students should be able to obtain a public post-secondary education (Clinton on the Issues: College, 2016). The current truth is that “access and success in higher education continue to be stratified according to income…” (Eckel & King, 2004). With Clinton’s plan access would increase, and with that enrollment would increase. Increased enrollment at college campuses strikes as an initially positive thought; more students can gain and education and contribute that education to bettering society. However, increase enrollment could lead to increase selectivity, if enrollment increased in extreme enough amounts. State schools, that were founded to offer quality education would now have a larger pool of student to pick from. For the state school’s fortunate enough to the capacity to educate more student’s their success would continue to increase. But what about the state schools that are already struggling with enrollment issues? Will they continue to live out their mission and increase enrollment at the expense of the student’s education quality. For campuses that are already filled with students, larger incoming classes would lead to less enrollment options, larger classroom sizes, and the same campus resources spread thinner across a larger student body. Schools in this category would be forced to decide between decreasing
Over the last three decades several United States auto jobs have migrated to the South. Some of the things that have attracted these auto giants to these Southern States is the cost of living and operating advantages which far surpass those of their Northern counterparts, which also attract more white-collar workers. The Volvo plant is no different, their goal for building in South Carolina is an attempt to re-focus it US market share, which had long diminished. Although having these auto giants, such as Volvo come in to these small rural towns to encourage growth and development, what effect does it really have in the community?
There were many changes to the South after a long and brutal Civil War. The most significant of these, was the change to the overall economic system of the South. After Slavery and the cotton industry was shattered, the South was left with figuring out how to fix a once rich land founded on slavery.
Since 1974, tuition has been on the rise and has reached new heights. One reason why tuition is increasing is because of “the state governments’ unwillingness or inability to raise per-student financing” (Davidson). The government is spending less on college and moving those funds into other categories, such as the military. Furthermore, colleges are spending less on each student than they did during pre-recession (Fox). Even after the recession, the government is continuously cutting more and more from education funds. As the government cuts more from education funds, tuition cost will steadily increase to compensate the loss. Tuition increased from 1994 to 2015 is depicted in the graph on the next page. Drawing a conclusion from the graph, it is possible that if this trend continues, public colleges will approximately reach the same price as private colleges one day. The amount of financial aid given is unable to meet the needs of lower income students,
The topic of this paper is the states’ decreasing financial support of higher education, the reaction and response from institutions who have lost funding, and the creative ways public institutions are locating additional streams of revenue. States have been the primary backer of public institutions, but since the recession states have shown less commitment financially while still heavily regulating higher education. As a result some institutions have had to change their practices while others have challenged their state’s regulations all together. Many have speculated that state funding may never return to its former highs. Rather than make an enemy of the state, some schools have discovered new and unconvential ways of raising funds for their institution.
Presently, the availability of educational opportunities at the college and university level is a critical state and personal interest given the needs of the state for a well-educated workforce which has never been greater. Too many, the focal point of attending college is receiving a high paying job in the future. Unfortunately, in most states, tuition is on the rise and students who come from low-income families find themselves struggling to fund their education. According to legislatures, “The cost of college in New Jersey, as in the nation, continues to grow faster than the rate of inflation.” (State of New Jersey 1). In the national financial aid policy resources that are typically given to the neediest families are shifting towards
In every nation, education has an important influence on the improvement of its economy and politics. For the United States of American, community college becomes one of the main factors to determine how the country moves forward. Using table 101.20 from Digest of Education Statistics of the National center for Education Statistics, from 2000 to 2014, the increase in college enrollment has been contributed by increases in the traditional college-age population and rising enrollment rates. But increasing costs of tuition and different expenses each year have become huge obstacles for students to focus and maintain their education status and achievements. This issue brings up the controversy about whether community college education should
A reduce in force of full-time staff members, not only affects over 500 faculty members, but also the quality of life and education for students that attend St. Louis Community College(STLCC). Chancellor Dr. Jeff Pittman has concluded that a reduction in force seems necessary since the Missouri Governor, Eric Greitens, cut $3.58 million in STLCC’s budget(Jost). The disadvantages of cutting full-time staff members, outweigh the few advantages. Has Missouri’s governor and chancellor fought hard against these budget cuts? State Representative Scott Fitzpatrick says, “I mean, it's a difficult decision, but [Greitens] probably made the right one,”(Rosenbaum). Probably? This decision is not a small change, this decision will affect hundreds, if not thousands of people. It should not be a dubious decision.
In order to gain control over the allocation of resources throughout the university and also to balance the monies being distributed amongst the revenue centres a system of participation/subvention was used by the university administrators. These participations were mere equal contributions (20% of the total tuition fees, sales and service income, and indirect cost recoveries) from all revenue centres and were redistributed back to them as block grants called subventions and these participations were portrayed as negative and subventions as positive indirect income. These features in fact enabled university administrators to focus on university priorities and goals. In allocating subventions their main focus was firstly on differentials in the costs of educating students in different fields and secondly, the revenue centres’ cost/quality ratios.