College education has gotten quite a bit of talk within the last few years. The talking helps to show why the cost of education has been on a steady rise. For many years college education was not that important, but now with not so many job openings and a lot of people wanting jobs, it requires more education in order to get the jobs. The higher someone goes in college the more likely they are to get the job they want. Almost everyone agrees that college education is on a steady price rise, but there are many reasons as to why it is rising. Some people have very strong issues as to why it is rising and some issues are pretty weak.
             To begin to understand this issue, we have to first examine the history and the context from which it arose. The rise of tuition is mainly due in part because the colleges need more money to upgrade and stay on top of the technology era. There are also many other reasons why tuition is on the rise though. One writer states that "As almost every state reels from the effects of the recession and tax cuts, legislatures slash funding for higher education, the largest discretionary item in most state budgets." (Reed Jr., p.25). Another writer states, "A need to improve facilities, state budgets that are declining and inflation are all contributing to the rising cost of higher education, and there appears to be no end in sight" (Gallagher, The Augusta Chronicle). This same writer gives another reason, "Universities, private and public, have to raise tuition to cover the costs of new construction, renovations and technological advancements and to keep qualified professors" (The Augusta Chronicle). All of these statements show that there are many reasons why college tuition is on the rise, but they don't seem to make sense to me. There should be other ways that colleges are able to pay for these advances in technology and inflation besides just hiking up the tuition cost. The tuition cost is so high that they sh...