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 Over the years, many colleges have been increasing their tuition rates, making it hard for students to even attend college. But students don't have a choice but to pay these amounts since they want to get a college education. Even though they pay large amounts of money for their college, are they getting their money's worth? Are they actually getting the education that their paying for? All students do is give signed checks by their parents without even knowing where this money is going. Attention should be brought up why is college tuition increasing and what is it being spent on.

 Annotated Bibliography for “Administrators Ate My Tuition” - Henry Rivas  This article is about how higher education institutions go about spending tuition money received from students. Even though the amount of money these institutions spend every year increases, they don’t seem to be spending it on the right sources such as hiring new teachers. Instead, they tend to hire more school administrators. This goes to show that even though colleges have the money to spend, they don’t use it to expand their education. They will rather waste more money on administrative resources than on instructors. Students are not getting any benefit from this, besides having more administrators to counsel them, instead of having new professors to actually teach the students. The article states that administrators aren’t worth the money because they can’t do the job an instructor could; meanwhile a professor could do their job as well as an administrator’s job and still have educational learning as their main priority. Administrators don’t even care about education; all they want is there salary and they will “act” like their doing something useful just to stay there. This article is a very useful source because it contains a lot of studies and charts showing that the increase of administrators in colleges is growing at a faster rate than the hiring of new professors. It also compares how the increase of college tuition has risen to the increase of administrative faculty members, showing that as tuition increased, so did the faculty. Therefore, the article clearly states where students’ college tuition is actually going, instead of just generalizing the education they are not getting in return. Since it shows that a lot of research was put into this article, I consider it an object source because it has supporting facts and percentages of how more new administrators were hired than teachers. It is basically trying to show there are some colleges that are corrupt because they would rather spend money on their own needs rather than furthering a student’s education. This article fits in perfectly in what I am arguing about because it shows were college tuition is going and being spent on. What I am trying to say in my argument is that as the years go on by, the price for college admission keeps on rising. Yet, this becomes a main concern because we don’t even know where this money goes to and what it is used for. Attention has to be brought up because we don’t even see an improvement in our education. Therefore, I would use this article in my research paper because it clearly states what schools are spending on, instead of what they should be spending on.  __**Work Cited List**__  Ginsberg, Benjamin. "Administrators Ate My Tuition." Washington Monthly 43.9/10 (2011): 49-56. Academic Search Complete. Web. 7 Dec. 2011.

 Annotated Bibliography for “The Real Deal on For-Profit Colleges”- Henry Rivas This article is about people who attend for-profit schools should be getting their money’s worth, but some schools do provide the proper material to do so. Even though they might promote their school by offering flexible schedules, it is not the best option as for college. For-profit colleges offer degrees to be earned at a faster pace than traditional four-year school because they want to make their school look better. They also offer online classes, as well as night classes to those who have busy schedules. But in the article, it states that for-profit schools only care about the money and that’s all they want because they are not supported by any government funds. Therefore, these schools try to sell a student dreams that could occur if they attend that school, but in reality it is not going to happen, especially in this economy. They promise students the job opportunities they could have after graduating the course and the salary they would be making. That is why they try to teach curriculums that could be directly applied to the workplace. But it is not like that because they don’t even care who attends the school since they don’t have any requirements to join; they just want the money from non-traditional students. This article may not be the best article I could use because it is too general of an argument. Therefore, I would rather use my other article because this one doesn’t state facts that I could use in an argument. Other articles show numbers and percentage rates on why giving large amounts of tuition to colleges is bad. This article is more of a point-of-view of someone who actually attended a for-profit school. So she is basically talking through her own experience and giving her opinion. That is why I would say this article is kind of biased. The author just wanted to explain how a for-profit school operates and let the audience know what goes on in those schools. She isn’t really going for it or against it. However, I could still use this in my argument as a supportive argument because I kind of agree with the author where she states that for-profit schools just want the money from students and that is what my argument kind of is. I want to say that students should make sure that they know what they are investing their money in and know where it is going too. Students pay a lot of money for college education and they should get their money’s worth. At least, this article helped me understand what a non-profit school is and how it is ran.  __**Work Cited List**__  Clark, Jane Bennett. "The Real Deal on For-Profit Colleges." Kiplinger's Personal Finance 65.5(2011): 64-68. Academic Search Complete. Web. 7 Dec. 2011. 