Financial aid a necessity for some
Zach Schultz
Issue date: 12/3/09 Section: Editorial/Opinion
My wife and I have a 2-year-old daughter, and I have never once taken anything but full responsibility for being a parent and a student. Without the financial assistance provided to me by the state, I would never have been an accomplished student or a productive member of society in a position to help others. I have been and will always remain extremely grateful for and conscious of the financial aid that has been available to me during my time here at UWEC.
Without financial aid, college students with below-median EFC figures will rarely, if ever, become students at any university, and, by necessity, they will require lifelong aid from the state and federal government to make up for the inequitable income they receive from employers throughout their lives.
Whether you are in favor of or in opposition to the proposed Blugold Commitment, an important aspect of that plan is the financial aid surcharge included in the overall cost.
In last issue's editorial, Jacob Kampen suggested that we "find loans for students who can't afford the tuition" and require them to pay fully for the increase of the Blugold Commitment. How long would we have these people paying back those loans? Financial aid is in place for those students who do not have the privileges you have been given or the opportunity to offset the cost of repaying loans by the money provided to them by their parents.
However, financial aid while at school will guarantee that individuals with below-median EFC figures who receive, as Kampen contemptuously puts it, "free money" will be able to give back to the community, to the university and to the nation of which we are citizens.
Albert Einstein, one of the most prominent socialist thinkers but perhaps most overlooked as a socialist, once wrote, "Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being."
Without financial aid, college students with below-median EFC figures will rarely, if ever, become students at any university, and, by necessity, they will require lifelong aid from the state and federal government to make up for the inequitable income they receive from employers throughout their lives.
Whether you are in favor of or in opposition to the proposed Blugold Commitment, an important aspect of that plan is the financial aid surcharge included in the overall cost.
In last issue's editorial, Jacob Kampen suggested that we "find loans for students who can't afford the tuition" and require them to pay fully for the increase of the Blugold Commitment. How long would we have these people paying back those loans? Financial aid is in place for those students who do not have the privileges you have been given or the opportunity to offset the cost of repaying loans by the money provided to them by their parents.
However, financial aid while at school will guarantee that individuals with below-median EFC figures who receive, as Kampen contemptuously puts it, "free money" will be able to give back to the community, to the university and to the nation of which we are citizens.
Albert Einstein, one of the most prominent socialist thinkers but perhaps most overlooked as a socialist, once wrote, "Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being."
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