Money, Money, Money

In class today we stumbled upon the topic of WAMU as well as how our tuition money should be spent. Stemming from this concept, the discussion about whether or not we as students should have a say, and if so how much of a say, in the matter emerged. To start out, it is clear that this topic is one of an extremely complex nature. For this reason, there are discrepancies among students, as well as administrators and board members I would argue, concerning what the funds should be used towards. Being a student myself, I empathize with the emotions that the money that we pay to run this school should be used to in some way benefit us. The extent of how direct these methods are can vary I would believe. For example, the money could go towards providing teacher’s resources which help students, or they could go to the refurbishment of school buildings which helps students and faculty, or the money could go towards raising faculty’s salary which would solely benefit them.

As you can see, there are many options when it comes to student’s tuition especially because American University does not have an endowment. Personally, I believe that the money that we pay to the university should go towards something that will benefit the student body. This is because that leaves a broad range of options and does not have to completely exclude other people on campus including faculty and administrators who play key roles at American University.