A History of Protest: Students Act Out Against Rising Fees

Capitalism has no preference in who it attacks.

@Julianapolidor wtf? college is a privilege, NOT a right. Just like you work hard for your money and DESERVE it.

2) Colleges will begin to go bankrupt and close their doors.

We have a college education bubble in America that was made possible by the U.S. government's willingness to give out cheap and easy student loans. With all of the technological advances that have been taking place worldwide, the cost for a college education in America should be getting cheaper. Instead, private four-year colleges have averaged 5.6% tuition inflation over the past six years.
College tuitions are the one thing in America that never declined in price during the panic of 2008. Despite collapsing stock market and Real Estate prices, college tuition costs surged to new highs as Americans instinctively sought to become better educated in order to better ride out and survive the economic crisis. Unfortunately, American students who overpaid for college educations are graduating and finding out that their degrees are worthless and no jobs are available for them. They would have been better off going straight into the work force and investing their money into gold and silver. That way, they would have real wealth today instead of debt and would already have valuable work place experience, which is much more important than any piece of paper.

where is the next protest gonna be... does anyone know ?

You know, when my dad went to college, he could pay for it out of pocket. He worked and saved every spare penny in order to go off to college. He was able to do that. I can't. There is no way that working a minimum wage job you can ever get through college without taking loans. I understand that college prices have to go up, but why so much? We are living in a time where education is practically required to get a decent job, and you can't get that education unless you either rich enough to not need college, or want to drive yourself into debt with no way of knowing if you will ever be able to get a good enough job to pay it off. It is a game of dice. Jobs that probably shouldn't have a college education attached, do, and those that don't, require experience for entry level positions, or the equivalent education. I think that the whole system may need to be reworked... slowly... and nothing put into effect until it is fully planned AND tested. Maybe a solid decade of planning and testing. But that would never happen.

My university just did a 3% increase this past fall and now next fall they are doing another 4% increase because they decided to break ground on a new building without having the funds available for the build. Now we the students have to pay for the boards lack of judgment. Students globally should pick a date and mutually walk out to the streets to protest rising tuition and the lack of rising standards. My classes are getting bigger and my profs are getting worse. I just paid for a class that used 21 year-old information. How valid could the information in this Political Science class be?

When countries are suffering economically, why would education be free from the impact of that economic situation? - Especially in countries whoms governments are subsidizing higher education? In this situation, we're not talking about the ridulous increases in the cost of higher education that occured during the economic boom in the US in the past 2-3 decades. These countries that are trying to keep their whole economies from callapsing... a time when ALL areas of spending should be cut and ALL citizens should be willing to make sacrifices! ...including STUDENTS.