Research Blog #3

                Although I have not thought much about it, the issue of Privatization has a pretty direct connection to my topic. According to one of the readings called “Higher Education and Privatization,” Privatization is defined as the "movement away from public financing and toward private financing." Like I talked about in my Analytic essay, this change caused a lot of problems for students, two major ones being stress and financial debt. My topic focuses on the motivation of students in College, and I am going to be researching a lot of different sub-topics like how motivation depends on the major a student chooses or how motivation differs between minorities and other students; but, one connection I thought up was that the emergence of Privatization has most likely boosted the motivation of a lot of students going to college today. The fact that most students or their parents have to pay money out of their pockets for a college education means that students are less likely to take their education for granted. They will focus more and be more motivated because it's their money on the line; no one likes wasting money. The debt created by privatization also has to be a booster for student motivation, seeing as that debt can ruin someones life, as shown in The Student Loan Documentary. College students now feel as though they must do good academically in order to get a good job once they graduate so they can pay off their loans.