WEEK 4 Hanlu Xu ASA002 A01

The amount of tuition fee is very important factor for students to make decision about their college choice. I'm an international student and this is my last quarter at UC Davis. Each year I do my funds management and realized the tuition fee increases $2000 per year. Even though stereotype of international students is they are rich so that they can afford everything, many of these students are from middle-class instead of upper-class in China and their goal is to pursuit high-standard education. Therefore, being an international student, I feel the increase of tuition fee in each year is incomprehensible and increase pressures on my family. Some of my friends who want to apply universities in US, said "tuition fee becomes problem for them to make decisions." Therefore, based on reports of Davis and Berkeley, I think Davis should consider about the issue of tuition fee because it impedes many good students who want to study at UC Davis.

 It isn't a respectful behavior for Davis to welcome students. From announcements, Davis just focused on what’s event going on, such as broken things, rather than solving the problems. Instead, Berkeley stood out to figure out the problems in front of the society and comforted students. So inner of students at UC Davis cannot calm down. Maybe in the future, the Occupy movement will happen again.  

On the other side, repeated increase of tuition fee is not fair for everyone who wants to study at UC Davis because not everyone can afford such high amount of charge for education. This is a social problem - educational unfairness. As the report said, the organization called MCap can help middle-class students lower the tuition fee, but it isn’t comprehensive and long-term plan to solve this problem. Government may increase tax to recover this educational problem. In addition, how about international students?  For native students, they can apply university loan from banks, scholarship from university. And their tuition fee right now is around $15000-$16000 per year. However for international students , their tuition fee is $45000-$46000 per year. Moreover there is no organizations and banks which have policy to help them or lend money, and it's extremely hard for international students to apply scholarship. So they will have less and less opportunities to study in the US for future.  

From different aspect, increased tuition fee is a big issue for every university to consider seriously. University is a place for education to spread knowledge. They should provide equal chance for everybody to receive education.

Question: Do universities in other country have this educational problem?

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Markow, A. (2011, December) A Tale of Two Campuses Berkeley and Davis respond to Occupy movements.