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Kyle Collins

English 4

McCane

31 January 2018

Annotated Bibliography

● “Make Higher Education Affordable.” Make Higher Education Affordable | U.S.

PIRG, uspirg.org/issues/usp/make-higher-education-affordable.

This article talks about the effects of student debt and ways we can lower the overall cost

or save students money. It explains how the cost of colleges are rising and more and more

students are having to take out loans for school which can affect their lives after college such as

when they start a family or where they live. Some ways that we can save students some money in

college is to make textbooks more affordable by offering online versions or less expensive cost

for students to pay.

This source seems to be pretty trustworthy with the knowledge on the topic and the other

ways to learn more about making college more affordable shows that the author knows a lot

about the topic. I couldn't find one single author but the information is coming from an

organization that is committed to making college more affordable. This website does not seem

biased but it can be taken that way since they are on the side of the students and want college to

cost less. It says in the article that their organization is working with people to create ways to

make college more affordable.

I am gonna use this article in my paper and presentation by putting it with my second

subpoint which is that it leaves a high debt on students after college. The main parts of this

article i'll be using is gonna be some of the ways you can reduce the cost and how it affects
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students. I think this is gonna help me a lot because the website knows a lot about more

affordable education and shows a lot of good information to help support my opinion.

● “College Affordability and Completion: Ensuring a Pathway to Opportunity.”

College Affordability and Completion: Ensuring a Pathway to Opportunity | U.S.

Department of Education, www.ed.gov/college/.

This article begins by explaining how much college is needed in the real world. It shows

how someone with a college education makes more, has more opportunities, and is more likely

to get a job over someone with only a diploma. It then talks about how the prices of colleges now

is the highest it's ever been and for some colleges you still get the same stuff as formal years but

you pay more. It also talks about how its not getting cheaper or easier for student with Pell grants

being not funded anymore so it is harder for students to get help financially.

This article is written by the U.S. Department of Education so it seems pretty trustworthy

and with the amount of information they have a good knowledge about the topic. They provide a

lot of information on how the federal government isn't helping students and also on the history of

college tuitions. I think this is gonna help me a lot in the presentation because of the vivid

information that is given on ways it's gotten more expensive and how it affects students lives.

I'm going to use this source a good amount in the presentation. This source provides the

most information on what the government is doing with the situation and what the future is if it

isn't fixed. A good point that is made in this article is that “College graduates with a bachelor's

degree typically earn 66 percent more than those with only a high school diploma; and are also

far less likely to face unemployment. College graduates with a bachelor's degree typically earn

66 percent more than those with only a high school diploma; and are also far less likely to face

unemployment.” That is a good quote because it shows the effect on people that don't go to
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college and shows how much college is needed for a successful life and less and less people are

able to afford it.

● “Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act: Improving College Affordability.”

Lumina Foundation, www.luminafoundation.org/news-and-views/reauthorizing-the-

higher-education-act-improving-college-affordability.

This article is about lowering the cost of postsecondary education through government

funded programs. The writer of this article works for Lumina which is a company that works

specifically to lower the cost of a higher education. This company has worked directly with

Obama to lower the cost of postsecondary education. It goes into ways they have worked to

lower the cost and other ways to lower the cost.

The author of this article is the strategy director of the Lumina foundation so I think she

is pretty educated on the topic. The foundation works to lower the cost in order to bring people

out of debts that they are left with for the rest of their lives. The article is biased towards

lowering the cost and she is well educated about the topic and has worked towards their mission

since 2013.

I will be using this article in my project to support my point that it is forcing kids to take

lower paying jobs that don’t require a high education because they can’t afford a higher

education. They make great points on how the government isn’t working to lower the cost and

that the cost is increasing tremendously. It also talks about how the high prices is causing kids to

not be able to go to college because the tuition is simply to high.

● Rouse, Cecilia Elena. “The Postsecondary Education Conundrum.” Brookings,

Brookings, 28 July 2016, www.brookings.edu/research/the-postsecondary-

education-conundrum/.
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This article talks about how technology has made colleges more expensive and also what

needs to be done to make college more affordable. It shows how advantaged kids are the

majority of people going to college and when they do they go to elite colleges which shouldn't be

available to the wealthy but more to everyone in general. Critics have shown that college

completion rates are lower than ever and the amount of people actually enrolling is lower than

ever.

The author of this article seems pretty reliable because of the amount of knowledge she

has and amount of passion she has for the topic. It seems a little biased towards lowering the

tuitions of colleges and making it more affordable. She mentions how past colleges were ran and

how much they costed so that shows that she knows a lot about the history of the topic. The

article comes from a website about colleges and their tuitions and how to reduce the cost of

colleges.

This article has a lot of good information on the cost of colleges and how to reduce the

cost and the history of the topic. One thing i'm gonna use is when it talks about how how the

policy makers use advances in technology as an excuse of the high tuitions. I agree with that

statement because as technology advances yes colleges are gonna use more technology but it is

being driven towards students learning on their own instead of being with a professor which can

hurt a students ability to learn the information.

● “What's Driving College Costs Higher?” NPR, NPR, 26 June 2012,

www.npr.org/2012/06/26/155766786/whats-driving-college-costs-higher.

This article talks about the debt that students are left with after college and what the

government had done to help this problem. It also talks about what is driving up the cost of

colleges and what we can do to lower those cost. It has a lot of statistics about the amount of
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people that are going to college and also the amount of kids that aren’t going to college because

of the cost.

This article is from the South Carolina Public Radio and the person that wrote this seems

very educated about the issue. The amount of statistics that are shown and the amount of

information that is given shows that the person has done research about the topic. The article has

a lot of information about what the government has done to help the problem and what they

should do in order to help fix the problem.

This article has a lot of good statistics that i’m gonna be able to use and prove my topic

more. This article seems to be biased about lowering the cost of college and what the federal

government should to in order to fix the problem. One thing i'm gonna use is how the tuitions are

paying for other stuff that some students don't take part in or won't be affected by the money.

● Morgan, Julie Margetta. “Making College More Affordable.” Center for American

Progress, www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-

postsecondary/reports/2012/02/02/11082/making-college-more-affordable/.

This article talks about how colleges have been raising the tuitions for a while but now

people are being affected by debt more than ever. It shows that government policies aren't gonna

be able to fix the problem. It shows ways on incentivizing tuitions and what needs to be done to

get the tuitions lower. It shows that the colleges need to start spending the government funds

more wisely so that the tuitions are able to be lowered.

This article comes from the Center for American Progress and has a lot of information on

how colleges need to change in order for the tuitions be lowered. It also has a lot of information

on what the federal government should be doing to lower the cost of the tuitions so that more
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students can pay for college. The article seems biased towards lowering the cost and they have a

lot of knowledge on the topic so it seems pretty trustworthy.

I am going to be using a lot of the information on what colleges should do in order to

lower the tuitions and what the government needs to do. It has tons of facts on past presidents

and what they said they would do in order to fix the problem. The information is pretty reliable

so it should help support my side a lot more.