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Essay / Tuition fees: where does the money go? - 1138
However, people often don't know where the tuition money goes and how the money is spent? In “College Tuition: Where is the Money Going?” » David Harriman explains how tuition money is spent. Harriman says most of the tuition goes toward employing faculty members. The majority of money spent on hiring professors is not really a surprise because there are thousands of students and they need enough professors to support the students. Harriman shows that tuition money helps pay for many things at the university like labs, ancillary businesses, operations and maintenance, student services, and scholarships and grants. Harriman shows that tuition money helps pay for many things in college. While tuition is necessary for all of these things, it begs the question why is tuition increasing every year? Harriman attributes tuition growth to declining state funding, which caused colleges to raise tuition. He also recognizes that the university has become a business that wants to attract students. Harriman doesn't keep in mind that the university becoming a business isn't exactly positive in many ways. Encouraging students to come to a specific college may provide that college with the money it needs, but changing education to encourage students to believe the college is fair may cause the college to lose the integrity of