Summary: College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout is giving students free tuition in exchange for working on campus.
Topic: Pell Grants
Category: Multimedia
What is it? Video
Publication info: CBS, 7/28/09
Author: Bowers, Cynthia
Location: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJZVtpnDHRY
Accessed: 3/8/09
Support:
Amy Brown: student
Levi Walker: student
Jerry Davis: president
Emily Howard: student
Summary:
Amy Brown comments on how she does not mind waking up at 3:45 AM to milk cows, because it is helping keep her out of debt when she graduates. Levi Walker works as a town tour guide, and he comments on how great an opportunity attending C of O is. Jerry Davis, president of the college, talks about the rewards that the students get from the work on campus that the students participate in.
Audience and agenda:
CBS is one of the major networks in America, it delivers a wide range of programming. The agenda of the Early Show is to keep viewers informed on current events nationally and internationally. CBS also has its own channel on youtube which has over 100,000 subscribers.
Usefulness:
College of the Ozarks is a institution that exhibits the change that needs to happen to the American higher education system. Everyone that needs help paying for college is not eligible for a Pell Grant. So they are forced to take out a student loan from their bank, and go through the process of repayment after graduating. If we had more free tuition colleges then students would not be graduating college in debt having to pay off student loans. Getting through college should be a rewarding experience, not one that students should dread.
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The truth is this. You have to fill out a FAFSA form to get into the CofO. If after you fill out the form, you qulify for enrollment, then you have qualified for a full college grant. CofO then takes that grant money and pays themselves for your tuition and they make you work without pay. If you qualified to attend CofO then you could’ve got a full go. grant to go anywhere, and if you had gone anywhere else, you could’ve got a job and kept your earnings.