Max Ma
ASA002 A03
Week 4
Both "A Tale of Two Campuses" and "Why We Should Fear Universities" prompted me to look into the reason behind why most universities nowadays operate based on a business-oriented model, instead of being public or student oriented.
Across UC's 10 campuses, UC Berkeley is one of the most reputable and well established campus. UC Berkeley receives billions of donations each year that gives the school the flexibility to help its students with financial burden . In comparison, UC Davis' endowment is far less impressive. Therefore, UC Berkeley obviously would have had the full capacity to respond to student movements by providing concrete solution to the topic students are protesting against. UC Berkeley has the full capability to give more benefits to its students and to release their financial burden, whereas UC Davis has far less financial ability to afford a mass reduction in student tuition. The method that was used by UC Davis to handle student movements was unacceptable, however, we often ignore or lack of understanding on why the school doesn't have the capacity to provide certain things in a way that benefits all students. In this society, and to be realistic, there is a trade-off in every situation. In order to keep its reputation, facility, education and staff quality, UC Davis can't risk to reduce the flow of its income that is supporting the school running. Unfortunately, most people don't know the fact that state government reduces its funding to state school each year in order to offset the inflation rate that's caused a burden. In order to be competitive and comparable to other top-tier private universities, UC Davis is naturally in more of a disadvantage than UC Berkeley, or UCLA. Under these complicated circumstances, some schools like UC Davis are forced to operate on a financial or business-oriented model in order to keep up its competitiveness in many ways.
Question:
Is it really possible to achieve a situation where students are all happy with the cost of their education? If a public school simply can't afford to cut the tuition any lower because it has maintain its education quality in order to remain as competitive as private schools, what methods can the students use to let the school hear them besides protesting?
References:
"Digital Image" Retrieved on Oct. 15, 2017, from Hiltzik, Michael. “When Universities Try to Behave like Businesses, Education Suffers.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2016, www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-university-business-20160602-snap-story.html.
Both "A Tale of Two Campuses" and "Why We Should Fear Universities" prompted me to look into the reason behind why most universities nowadays operate based on a business-oriented model, instead of being public or student oriented.
Across UC's 10 campuses, UC Berkeley is one of the most reputable and well established campus. UC Berkeley receives billions of donations each year that gives the school the flexibility to help its students with financial burden . In comparison, UC Davis' endowment is far less impressive. Therefore, UC Berkeley obviously would have had the full capacity to respond to student movements by providing concrete solution to the topic students are protesting against. UC Berkeley has the full capability to give more benefits to its students and to release their financial burden, whereas UC Davis has far less financial ability to afford a mass reduction in student tuition. The method that was used by UC Davis to handle student movements was unacceptable, however, we often ignore or lack of understanding on why the school doesn't have the capacity to provide certain things in a way that benefits all students. In this society, and to be realistic, there is a trade-off in every situation. In order to keep its reputation, facility, education and staff quality, UC Davis can't risk to reduce the flow of its income that is supporting the school running. Unfortunately, most people don't know the fact that state government reduces its funding to state school each year in order to offset the inflation rate that's caused a burden. In order to be competitive and comparable to other top-tier private universities, UC Davis is naturally in more of a disadvantage than UC Berkeley, or UCLA. Under these complicated circumstances, some schools like UC Davis are forced to operate on a financial or business-oriented model in order to keep up its competitiveness in many ways.
Question:
Is it really possible to achieve a situation where students are all happy with the cost of their education? If a public school simply can't afford to cut the tuition any lower because it has maintain its education quality in order to remain as competitive as private schools, what methods can the students use to let the school hear them besides protesting?
References:
"Digital Image" Retrieved on Oct. 15, 2017, from Hiltzik, Michael. “When Universities Try to Behave like Businesses, Education Suffers.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2016, www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-university-business-20160602-snap-story.html.
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