Annotated Bibliography

"Office of Admission." Harvard University. President and Fellows of

Harvard University, Web. 19 Feb 2010.

It is know just by looking at the Harvard website that there truly is a sense of entitlement embedded into their students before they even arrive at the school. The students are told the graduates who they are to follow in the footsteps of and how they are the future leaders of America. Their statistics and what they choose to advertise on their website is that coming out of their school they will go wherever they want.

O’Shaughnessy, Lynn. "5 Reasons to Attend a Liberal Arts College."

CBS Money Watch (2010): n. pag. Web. 15 Feb 2010. .

O’Shaughnessy discusses in this article her feelings on why private (not necessarily just Ivy League) education is the better way to go. She talks about how the small and more personal class sizes aid in student development for their futures in the workplace. O’Shaughnessy highly discourages the impersonal qualities of the large scale university. With this it is safe to assume that she believes the high price of private education is worth it.

Research Questions

At first, I thought I wanted to write about who should pay for college and how. However, as I went further and further into my thinking process, I came up with a whole new topic. Something I would like to address would be the difference between public and private institutions. Is a $300,000 private institution investment truly worth it in comparison to an in-state school that is a fraction of the cost. Are the educations the same? What makes the private school so much more expensive. I would also like to explore why society has an obsession with the ivy league education and why often times public universities are over-looked.

MLA Resource assingment

I did a search on resources that would be helpful in my topic area, and while using the Rutgers RIOT advice, I found the following to be possible aids:

Arnett, Trevor, and General Education Board. Trends in Tuition Fees in State and Endowed Colleges and Universities in the United States from 1928-29 through 1936-37. New York: General Education Board, 1939. Print.

Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. Higher, and Education. Tuition; a Supplemental Statement to the Report of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education on "Who Pays? Who Benefits? Who should Pay?". Berkeley: Calif, 1974. Print.

Council for Financial Aid to Education. What Price Tuition? A Staff Study Prepared by the Division of Research., 1957. Print.

Ehrenberg, Ronald G. Tuition Rising : Why College Costs so Much. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, 2000. Print.

Hoxby, Caroline Minter, and National Bureau of Economic Research. College Choices : The Economics of Where to Go, when to Go, and how to Pay for it. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Print.

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 : Report of the Committee on Education and Labor Together with Additional Views to Accompany H.R. 4137. Washington, D.C: U.S. G.P.OPrint.

Rutgers RIOT

Before I went through the Rutgers RIOT program, I thought I knew quite a bit about researching for essays. My junior year of high school we spent a whole semester researching and writing a ten page research paper. With this, a lot of the lessons I already knew, I just needed my memory to be refreshed. The main thing I learned from this was the "evaluating" section. I have known how to find sources but some of the criteria I am supposed to be looking for, I did not know about. This was a good refresher exercise before I start working on my paper.

Three Questions for the Librarian.

Today,
the three questions I have for the librarian are as follows:


1.) Is there anyway I can find records of college tuition prices and how they have increased in the past few years?
2.) Is there any way I could find out how much college cost way back in the beginning of higher education?
3.) Is there a statistic that could show the average G.P.A's of college students on scholarship and who are not on scholarship?

Continuing with the topic idea

Since the first time I wrote in this my topic ideas have changed a little. The analytical essay made me think of more and more ideas for what I would like to write about. The idea of who should pay for college and privatization. To go in more depth to see who deserves scholarships and who should pay for college out of topic would be very interesting to me. When searching through the internet, I came to notice how scholarships are so difficult to acquire these days and those who receive them should take full advantage of the privilege they are granted. Also, I check out the prices for college tuition, which are on the rise. College just keeps getting more and more expensive, meaning scholarships will be in higher demand. The other side of the debate could be how everyone deserves the right to an education, which I agree with but when people don't work up to their full potential they should have to pay for their education them self. In my research I found some of the most expensive colleges from 2008-2009. Including Sarah Lawrence which is $ 53,000 a year, according to http://www.campusgrotto.com/most-expensive-colleges-for-2008-2009.html. I will still venture other topics but this could be an interesting topic to choose.