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College Tuition Outline

Introduction: I am going to start off the article by stating some basic statistics of the rise of college tuition.  Intertwined in the introduction I will have a graphic that shows trends of college tuition over the last 10 years.  This will include that college tuition has risen 5.1% since 2001.  Funding from State University's has fallen by 21 percent nationally.  Public funding has dropped by 14.6% since the recession.  Average price after grants for tuition has risen about 33.1 percent.  Pell grants are blamed for driving costs up because when lower income students receive federal funding to attend college, some argue that institutions raise their prices to reflect the aid of the federal government.  Lastly, decrease in state and local funding of public universities is seen to be the main issue by economists, especially after the recession. This causes students to take out bigger loans that will be burdensome in the future. I will then go into how these issues are affecting students and how they finance their college tuition.  This can include taking out more loans and higher rates of students going to community college for 2 years and then transferring to larger universities.  After giving a brief overview of the issue at hand, I will narrow my intro into what I am going to be talking about specifically.  This will include the price of the educator and the price of credibility behind what students are learning.  I will address the main reasons state funding has been cut nationally.  Lastly I will address President Obama’s plan to cut college tuition in half in the next decade by looking into alternative education arena’s that could make this possible.   

Section 1: Rising cost of Services

·         VIDEO (1) Dr. Clement on the reasons of rising cost of tuition

·         Unlike the production industry, increasing technology does not necessarily increase education outcome.

·         A highly competitive education system requires a highly educated staff.  To retain this staff, it is costly to get their expertise at a competitive salary. 

·         State funding decreases due to Recession and recent cut backs

Section 2: Hurdles Obama faces cutting college tuition in the next decade

·         VIDEO (2) Dr. Clement on Obama

·         Quality of education will decrease

·         He must use technology more effectively (MOOCS)

o   Mold into a college education

o   How legitimate is that

·         More blended courses such as J150?

o   Less meeting time = less hours in class spent by teachers and less facticity use by students

Matt and Jeff on rising college tuition

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College Tuition Outline

Introduction: I am going to start off the article by stating some basic statistics of the rise of college tuition.  Intertwined in the introduction I will have a graphic that shows trends of college tuition over the last 10 years.  This will include that college tuition has risen 5.1% since 2001.  Funding from State University's has fallen by 21 percent nationally.  Public funding has dropped by 14.6% since the recession.  Average price after grants for tuition has risen about 33.1 percent.  Pell grants are blamed for driving costs up because when lower income students receive federal funding to attend college, some argue that institutions raise their prices to reflect the aid of the federal government.  Lastly, decrease in state and local funding of public universities is seen to be the main issue by economists, especially after the recession. This causes students to take out bigger loans that will be burdensome in the future. I will then go into how these issues are affecting students and how they finance their college tuition.  This can include taking out more loans and higher rates of students going to community college for 2 years and then transferring to larger universities.  After giving a brief overview of the issue at hand, I will narrow my intro into what I am going to be talking about specifically.  This will include the price of the educator and the price of credibility behind what students are learning.  I will address the main reasons state funding has been cut nationally.  Lastly I will address President Obama’s plan to cut college tuition in half in the next decade by looking into alternative education arena’s that could make this possible.   

Section 1: Rising cost of Services

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->VIDEO (1) Dr. Clement on the reasons of rising cost of tuition

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Unlike the production industry, increasing technology does not necessarily increase education outcome.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->A highly competitive education system requires a highly educated staff.  To retain this staff, it is costly to get their expertise at a competitive salary. 

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->State funding decreases due to Recession and recent cut backs

Section 2: Hurdles Obama faces cutting college tuition in the next decade

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->VIDEO (2) Dr. Clement on Obama

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Quality of education will decrease

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->He must use technology more effectively (MOOCS)

<!--[if !supportLists]-->o   <!--[endif]-->Mold into a college education

<!--[if !supportLists]-->o   <!--[endif]-->How legitimate is that

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->More blended courses such as J150?

<!--[if !supportLists]-->o   <!--[endif]-->Less meeting time = less hours in class spent by teachers and less facticity use by students

NBC News App: Bringing Everything You Need to Your Mobile Phone

NBC News app provides its audience the ability to connect to any type of news relevant to their lives.  Whether it is sports, entertainment, business, or politics, the NBC news app enables the user to get their news on the fly.  Through articles, video, and images, this app provides everything an online website would provide, but on a portable device.  

One really cool interactive feature is its opening news wheel.  Instead of having the normal bar across the top breaking up news categories, it has a spinning wheel that makes it easy to navigate.  Once you are in each individual category, there is a nice, easy to read, list of articles displaying both the title and a small image to engage the reader into that particular piece.  

To engage more with its users, the NBC News App enables you to customize your app to your liking.  It enables you to have breaking news alerts so you get up to date news coverage whenever it happens. You are able to sign in using social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter to share information with friends and family.  Along the lines of display, you are able to choose your own color schema such as white on black or black on white.  A new feature that they have that many apps do not provide is called Instapaper.  Instapaper enables you to save articles for later reading whether you are connected to internet or not.  This is crucial for reading on subway systems, especially in a suburban area like Washington DC where you lose service due to going underground all of the time on the metro.  

While most news apps have their basic news with articles and short media clips, the NBC news app provides something that sets it apart from all other apps.  It enables you to view their top shows on tv through your phone.  Shows such as the Today show, Dateline NBC and the Nightly News are all available at the touch of your phone. The only problem that I have with this is this is that it cuts up the show into into segments and not a full show due to the fact that you can only hold so much video on one upload.  This makes it annoying to keep going back and forth to see a whole show.  

Overall, this is the best news app that I have seen out on the market.  Seeing that it has a review rating of 4.5/5 on the user ratings on the iTunes store, NBC obviously connects to their audience in an efficient and entertaining way that keeps them coming back.