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Annotation bibliography.docx
ALGHAMDI1
NASSER ALGHAMDI
MISTY JONES
ENGL-102
Research question: should Engineering major’s pay more tuition than other majors?
Aubry, Timothy. “Don’t Panic, Liberal Arts Majors. The Tech World Wants You.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 21 Aug. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/books/review/you-can-do-anything-george-anders-liberal-arts-education.html.
The author Timothy Aubry is an Associate Professor of English and Deputy Chair of English Department in Baruch college, specializing in American Literature from the twentieth and twenty-first century, contemporary fiction, literary theory and criticism, and popular culture. He received his BA from Amherst College and his phD from Princeton. The author used two sources in the article the first one is a book written by George Anders and the title is “YOU CAN DO ANYTHING the Surprising Power of a “Useless” Liberal Arts Education”. The second one is also a book written by Randall Stross the title of the book is “A PRACTICAL EDUCATION Why Liberal Arts Majors Make Great Employees”. I can use this source in writing about the English major’s ability in providing help to the tech world. I found this article by using the search term English majors in New York Times website search.
Anonymous.”Salary-based Tuition.” Industrial Engineering, vol. 43, no. 6, ,p. 12. EBSCO host, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bsh&AN=60839104&site=ehost-live.
There is one reference used in this article the reference is a research done by Glen Nelson who is a vice president of Arizona Board of Regents. The article gives examples with figures of differential tuition in the USA. According to the article Ninety-two of the 162 public research universities that offer undergraduate degrees have at least one program that charges higher tuition than other. Differentials in engineering averaged 14 percent but ranged from 2 percent to 45 percent. And in 2008, six schools — Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Virginia Commonwealth, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne, and the University of Colorado, Boulder — charged engineering students at least 25 percent more than other undergraduates. I found this article using WVU library database using the search term tuition.
Alvarez, Lizette. “Florida May Reduce Tuition for Select Majors.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 9 Dec. 2012, www.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/education/florida-may-reduce-tuition-for-select-majors.html.
Alvarez has been the Miami chief for the NYT since January 2011. The author used a report done by the State Higher Education Executive Officers to provide some evidences for the fact that spending per student in Florida decreased significantly from 2006 to 2011. The article is discussing what governor Scott and Republican lawmakers are prodding to 12 state universities. As it is showing that they are prodding them to find ways to encourage students to get into majors that are in demand in the job market. Alvarez thinks that it is difficult for universities to reduce the average of degree tuition as the universities also asked to provide a good quality education. However, Henningsen says there are some programs were $10000 makes perfect sense. In conclusion, some colleges starts exploring great private public partnership which is what Mr. Scott wants to see happen in the future. I found this article in the NYT using the search term tuition.
Dwyer, Liz. “Should Engineering Students Pay More Than English Majors for Their Degrees?” GOOD Magazine, 17 Feb. 2015, www.good.is/articles/should-engineering-students-pay-more-than-english-majors-for-their-degrees.
Liz is the education editor in Good Magazine. She is the culture and education editor at Take part company. Liz used a survey done by Cornell Higher Education Research Institute in the article. The author first provided some examples in the article about many universities who the engineering or business departments charge more than the other departments. As a justification of that institutions or colleges research shows that engineering, business, and nursing majors students get higher starting salaries than the other students with English degrees. The article also gives other examples about the colleges that have higher tuition for seniors and juniors and the author says institutions have difficulties to graduate more students but because they make the tuition more expensive for students in their last years to get their degrees. I found this article in google using the search term Engineering tuition.
Frank, Adam. “Should Engineers Pay More Tuition Than English Majors?” NPR, NPR, 29 May 2012, www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2012/05/29/153889824/should-engineers-pay-more-tuition-than-english-majors.
Adam is a contributor to the NPR blog and a professor at the University of Rochester. He is currently heads a research group developing supercomputer code to study the formation and death of stars. This article is illustrating the authors ideas about the tuition in high education. The authors say it is a bad idea to make the cost of tuition depends on the major. He also mentioned that 140 public colleges had differential tuition rates in some cases the change depends where are the student level of courses and some schools it depends on the major. It makes sense that some majors tuitions is higher since it is cost more to run or in high demand as Adam says. In conclusion, the author says we need more scientists, engineers not less we also need to remain committed to educate in the humanities and the value it provides society. I found this article in google using the search term Engineering tuition.
Fain, Paul. “Tuition Model Quietly Spreading.” Differential Tuition Grows in Popularity, Even at Community Colleges, 9 Apr. 2012, www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/09/differential-tuition-grows-popularity-even-community-colleges.
Paul Fain had written for many newspapers and magazine such as The New York Times, Washington city Paper and Mother Jones. Paul has a degree in political from the University of Delaware in 1996. Paul use a research done by Ronald G. Ehrenberg the director of Cornell’s Higher Education Research Institute. According to Ehrenberg community colleges were to go the route many four-year colleges take to add an extra fee for high-cost majors. For example, the University of Kentucky charges $460 per semester for nursing, which is 10.7 increase over the in-state semester tuition of $4305. Nursing and engineering courses that requires expensive equipment and small capacity of student along with business programs are the most likely to come with extra fees according to the research. I found this article using the search term differential tuition definition in google.
Jaschik, Scott. “Differential Tuition Impact.” Study Finds Differential Tuition Can Influence Enrollment Levels, 15 July 2013, www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/15/study-finds-differential-tuition-can-influence-enrollment-levels.
The author Scott Jaschik is a leading voice on higher education issues, quoted regularly in publications nationwide, and publishing articles on colleges in publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Salon. He also has been a judge or screener for the National Magazine Awards. The author graduated from Cornell University in 1985. The author used a research done by Kevin M. Stange who is an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Michigan. Scott also used a study done by Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. I can use this article in providing evidences of the decline of engineering students in some universities that occurred because of the differential tuition policy. The author main point in this article is to who the impact of the differential tuition on student as he believe that it discourage them to enroll in some fields. I found this article in google using the search term differential tuition.
Kayla Webley. “College Costs: Would Tuition Discounts Get More Students to Major in Science?” Time, Time, 3 Jan. 2013, nation.time.com/2013/01/03/college-costs-will-tuition-discounts-get-more-students-to-major-in-science/.
Pk, et al. “Should Engineers and Business Majors Pay Higher Tuition?” DQYDJ, 2 May 2016, https://dqydj.com/should-engineers-and-business-majors-pay-higher-tuition/.
This article is from a personal finance site. They produce original research, visualizations, along with well researched investing and articles. The author used many references to write the article. For instance, he used an article from The New York Times written by Christopher Drew an investigative reporter for NYT. The author seeks in the issue and says that it is a fact that engineering and business degrees costs the universities more than the other majors because it costs them more to pay for professors who have already have a higher average of salaries than professors in other majors. In addition, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) have increased costs in the form of a heavy laboratory aspect to their major. In conclusion, people who wants to be an engineer should be ok with paying a higher tuition than other majors since they expect to make more when they graduate.
Quinton, Sophie. “Why Universities Charge Extra For Engineering, Business And Nursing Degrees.” The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 1 June 2017, www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-universities-charge-extra-for-engineering-business_us_59301ef8e4b017b267ee0090.
Sophie Quinton graduated from Yale University she wrote for National Journal, where she covered the White House and was a lead reporter for series on demographic change and the economy. She used a a study led by Gregory Wolniak who is a research director at New York University to provide evidences to her points. according to Wolniak study in 2015, 86 of 143 public research universities had a differential tuition policy while only 9 universities did in the early 1990’s. in addition, the differential tuition is particularly common in the Midwest. According to another survey conducted by Cornell researchers in 2011 universities most often charge for business, engineering and nursing programs. I can use this article to show evidences of the universities that had a differential tuition and the cost of the fee additional to each major. I found this article using the search term differential tuition in google.
Shin, Jung, and Sande Milton. “Student Response to Tuition Increase by Academic Majors: Empirical Grounds for a Cost-Related Tuition Policy.” EZProxy | WVU Libraries, 22 July 2007, link-springer-com.www.libproxy.wvu.edu/article/10.1007%2Fs10734-007-9085-1.
Jung earned his PhD in philosophy from Florida State University in 2003 and masters in Arts from Seoul National University. Sande is Educational Leadership ad policy Studies in Florida State University. In the study, authors explored student responses to tuition increases broken down by academic majors in order to establish an empirical basis for a cost-related tuition policy that links tuition to expenditures of different academic majors. One of the critical in designing a cost related tuition policy is how students respond to tuition changes, universities need to have information about the students respond patterns to tuition so that they can increase it without losing studetns. The study also found that tuition elasticity is different across disciplines, especially in Engineering, where the tuition or tuition increase was not significant in modeling enrollment and both the rates of return and college costs are the highest among the six majors. I found this article in WVU database using the search term tuition.
Weissmann, Jordan. “Should Colleges Charge Engineers More Than English Majors?” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 3 July 2013, www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/07/should-colleges-charge-engineers-more-than-english-majors/277516/.
Jordan is a former senior associate editor at the Atlantic. Jordan used a wrking paper released by Kevin Stage an economist in the University of Michigan and a This article shows examples of the differences in the tuition between different majors and giving some examples of universities who have different prices between courses. The article discusses the issue as Weissmann see it and he provided his opinion and what is the disadvantage after this issue. There are chart from the study of Cornell’s Higher Education Research Institute showing the number of the institutions with differential tuition from 1960 to 2010. In conclusion, he thinks that it would not be a bad idea to charge seniors more than freshman as he says. So that he suggests making a different between the prices of the upper level courses and intro level. I found this article in google using the search term Engineering tuition.
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Research proposal.docx
ALGHAMDI3
NASSER ALGHAMDI
MISTY JONES
ENGL_102
Research Proposal
Working Title of Research Project: Engineering Majors Should Pay High Tuition
Research question: Should Engineering majors pay more tuition than other majors?
Description of Argument with Thesis Statement:
The United States is regarded as one of the leading technological and innovative countries in the world. The high-quality products created by the American engineers or those who received the degree in the U.S. take leading positions in the global markets. Such success can be explained by the fact of valuable knowledge that a person can obtain in American universities. Respectively, the qualitative education requires higher tuition. In this way, there is a substantial issue related to the tuition. The point is that a lot of American colleges have majors requiring more money to receive. Engineering is among those disciplines.
Therefore, the discussion appears. Some consider that it is normal to have the various tuition for various majors. Others do not agree since all disciplines are important equally, and it is not right to have various tuition in a single educational institution. The evaluation of opposite views and facts allows one to understand that having a diverse tuition is acceptable since disciplines and requirements for them are varied, the equipment used can also cost differently, and the potential salaries of graduates are not the same. It can be stated that Engineering majors should pay more tuition compared to other majors because the field is perspective, this major is expensive for colleges, and it requires more educational methods to educate students.
Who are the members of your audience, and how will you reach them?
Regarding the audience, it is broad including members of two categories. The first category is people, who do not know about the issue or people, who know a little. This group of the audience choses more general information delivered in a simple language. The members of this group require an introduction to the topic, the explanation of its key components, and small conclusive ideas. In other words, such members, for instance, high-schoolers, first-year students or students decided to learn in America, need to understand the problem as well as the arguments.
The second part of the intended audience is hard to persuade. Those members are skeptics or people with a strong opinion on the tuition issue. Presumably, they are students decided to enroll to Engineering majors, their parents or people, who just disagree with the necessity of different tuition. To reach this audience, it is needed to have thorough factual support, statistics, and scholarly opinions. I need to not only explore my position, though prove it with the strong background. Therefore, it is required to establish logical structure and coherence, share the most significant pro-arguments, and appeal to the emotions of readers.
What counterarguments can you identify? How will you address them?
For the argument I am going to explore, there are several objections. Two most significant and apparent counterarguments are unfairness and risk to the education system. The first counterargument means that different tuition for Engineering and other disciplines entails some unfairness. That is to say, students who want to enroll in the major in Engineering pay more than, for instance, those applying for the major in English Literature. Even more, some may say that occupations requiring Engineering are considered more prestigious, and they neutralize the importance of other careers. The first part of counterargument comes from the lack of knowledge on the issue. To address that, I will use the chosen sources because the majority of them explains why Engineering majors are expensive. For instance, Pk states that STEM disciplines have a higher cost due to the high-cost equipment and professors with high salaries. The another part of the counterargument is a hypothesis that if Engineering is popular and requires more cost other majors become automatically less important and respectable for the society. This notion is refuted by Timothy Aubry who proves that Liberal Arts are demanded for the contemporary tech world.
The second popular position against different tuition is that this phenomenon harms the education system and the learning process itself. Scott Jaschik, in his article, reflects on this view stating that students will be discouraged from STEM fields of study, and the country will have the engineering deficit. In other words, some think that different tuitions leads to the disbalance of the academic environment and eventually society. To address this point, I will also utilize articles I chose. Together with that, I will emphasize the logic and emotional appeal, for example, by stating that education is an investment in the future; thus it requires the start-up capital. At the same time, students should choose their path based on their skills, desires, and interests, not only on the salary or tuition concerns.
How will you use the sources that you have found? Which will be most important?
All the sources I have found will help me to present the argument, explore its background, and polish it. In the main, the articles focus on the pro-argument position. The ideas covered in each piece are rather similar, which will be useful to increase the number of references and enhance the persuasiveness. Except for personal views of the authors, the sources include references to the thematic studies and statistics. It means that there will be the factual support for my argument. Through the analysis of the articles, it is possible to highlight the most important points of all the authors. It is helpful for building the structure, dividing the text into subcategories, and making the clear and solid message.
Among the others, I want to emphasize the article of Dwyer Liz because it has all the crucial points about the issue. It assists to organize my own argument correctly. Also, the mentioned article by PK is helpful in both understanding the fact and arguing about the opposite view. The scholarly article entitled “Salary-based Tuition” ihas data that might be useful. In parallel, the pieces of Aubry and Frank includes counterarguments, the analysis of which will help to reinforce the position of mine.
What materials do you still need to find in order to effectively make your argument?
I think that the sources obtained covers the topic precisely. However, to understand the issue in a broad perspective, it would be useful to find some additional materials. Firstly, some official documents, maybe laws or regulations, to analyze the legal field of the different tuition. Secondly, to examine the labor market, some data on the top jobs related to Engineering comparing to the non-STEM occupations and the ratio of salaries is needed. Thirdly, some global view on the similar problem to realize how the experience of other countries may help in dealing with this discussion in the United States. Finally, some personal opinions based on the gain experience of people who graduated with the major in Engineering and how it impacted their lives.
Source evaluation.docx
ALGHAMDI5
NASSER ALGHAMDI
MISTY JONES
9/17/2017
Should Engineering Majors Pay More Tuition Than Other Majors?
Introduction
The article under consideration provides an overview of the dynamics involved in pricing tuition fees for students in institutions of higher learning. In researching the question of whether Engineering majors should pay more tuition fees than other majors, the article had to be subjected through evaluation. Ideally, the process of conducting research involves carefully selecting sources that are appropriate for the study. However, not all the materials that one finds are relevant or comprehensive enough, which is why evaluation of information is critical to research. Additionally, evaluation aids in determining the validity and reliability of the material and information contained. Evaluation equally helps a researcher to find the best material and information from the numerous sources and is, therefore, a fundamental step in the research process. Consequently, the scope of this paper will be evaluation of Quinton’s article through application of various criteria that will help determine its suitability for the research topic.
Evaluation and Application of the Criteria
Bias and objectivity are some of the major factors used in providing evaluation. Essentially, these criteria consider whether the author or authors have presented information in an objective manner and identified any bias that may render the source inappropriate. They also consider whether the material is informed by facts that can be proven, or they are formed based on opinion. In Quinton’s article, information has been presented in an objective manner and there is limited bias. Moreover, the author does not offer information based on her own opinion and uses information from credible people to support the claims made. For instance, she argues that tuition prices that are listed on college websites have been altered from what student actually pay on several occasions, and that students in campus pay varying tuition fees depending on financial aid awards. This premise is followed by the reference to a research study that was led by Gregory Wolniak (Quinton). By giving information to support the argument she makes, the author establishes objectivity and manages to convince that the information is not informed by emotions or opinion but facts that can be subjected to verification. Additionally, this means that one can confirm the authenticity of the information by looking up the research which informed the position of the work and the points that are made.
Accuracy is another criterion in the process of evaluation. In this regard, the researcher considers whether the information can be verified. It also includes looking at whether the work makes use of other sources by citing them. Ideally, backtracking to the cited sources helps in verification of information and arguments made. In the case of articles, it is important to consider whether the periodical is a respected one. For the article under consideration, it can be regarded as accurate and appropriate since it makes use of information sources that can be looked up. For example, the author notes that undergraduates in the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign were charged forty-two percent higher than students studying arts (Quinton). This information can be looked up on the university website, which guarantees it to be true and, therefore, accurate. The source also makes use of graphically represented information in the form of charts that can be looked up to support the points that inform the position of the article. Moreover, the author includes sources where the data came from, making it easier to follow up and determine their accuracy. For instance, the first graph comes from a study done by Gregory Wolniak of New York University(Quinton). It has the year of the study and the name of the source article, which is Improving Transparency in College Costs.
Primary and secondary sources are also criteria on which an article can be evaluated. The chosen article makes use of secondary sources such as the cited study done by Wolniak on college costs. Quinton uses primary sources such as the statement made by the then Governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley in 2012, in which he was criticizing the University of Maryland for requesting to raise the price of engineering and science programs. Such sources are verifiable and help support the broad range of stances that the article uses in explaining the focus of the topic.
One of the most critical criteria for evaluation of an article is authority. The concept of authority entails considering the author of the information and reasons they could be considered believable. This means looking at the author’s credentials and expertise in the chosen field. It also includes investigating previous works of the author that are related to the research topic and whether they are an authority in the subject. However, in the article chosen, the concept of authority is not very clear since the expertise of the author on the subject is not stated. The name of the author has been given, but there is no additional information that points out who they are and the level of experience they have in the field. However, upon subjecting the name of the author to additional search, it was evident that she is an expert in the field and has written other works that are concerned with the area of focus.
Conclusion
Overall, evaluating an article using the criteria explained is critical since it helps in determining its suitability for research. Since the selected article comes from a web source, the update on the site was also examined. The site was last updated two months ago, which is recent, and Huffington Post is a well-known and credible website that gives reliable information, which is useful for research.
Work Cited
Quinton, Sophie. “Why Universities Charge Extra for Engineering, Business and Nursing Degrees.” Huffpost, 1 Jun. 2017. www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-universities-charge-extra-for-engineering-business_us_59301ef8e4b017b267ee0090. Accessed 15 Sept. 2017.