LETTER: Predictions on education

Editor,

Employers used to recognize the importance of having a degree and were willing to pay a little more to have such employees. Now with the yearly increase in tuition is that going to hold true? My views tend to lead in a different direction.

As the cost of education continues to skyrocket fewer people are going to be able to go to school. Education increases per year are, by far, greater than the normal cost of living increases people get as raises. Not as many people will be able to afford a college education.

So if the number of college graduates drop, then employers have fewer choices and might turn to hiring those who have Trade School Certifications or have no education at all. This of course would be a savings for the employers because they would not have to pay the additional salaries they used to pay the college graduates.

And then we are back to square one, right where we started. Educated people will be passed by for others who are less educated and cost less to hire. With the new budget cuts this year USU staff members are looking at the second year of no pay raises. Departments might have to look at laying off staff members — a rare event.

So the cost of education goes up, and the quality goes down. Let me point out that there was at least one person on campus last year who got a significant raise and will probably get another this year. Our beloved President Kermit Hall had to sacrifice and only got a $30,000 to $35,000 a year raise last year. What will he get this year while others lose their jobs, no pay raises are given, technology suffers, research is cut and the quality of education goes down?

Aaron Curdy