US academia to protest 'low' education quality
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:25:56 GMT
US students showing their college debts.美國學生展示他們的大學債務。
America's college students and professors are to hold March 4 rallies nationwide in protest to the declining quality of education, which is suffering from fee hikes.
美國的大學生和教授會在 3月4日舉行全國集會，抗議下降中的教育質量，由於面對收費上漲。
University students and professors in more than 30 US states are planning demonstrations on Thursday in order to voice their anger about the increasing costs of studying over the states' cutting of education budgets that has brought about furloughs, tuition hikes, job cuts for professors, reduction of study programs and the general erosion of education system.
在美國 30多個州的大學生和教授，正計劃在週四示威，為表達他們的憤怒，對各州削減教育預算而引致學習費用增加，那已帶來休假，學費上漲，教授裁員，減少研究項目和一般教育體系的侵蝕。
The students' decision comes after the recent budget cuts in the states' education funding forced public colleges to increase tuition fees and thus impose heavier debt burdens on their students who have to take fewer courses in longer periods in order to finish their college programs.
學生的決定是在最近各州的教育經費預算削減後，迫使公立大學增加學費，從而加重學生的債務負擔，他們要在更長的時間選少些課程，以完成他們的大學課程。
In California, the country's worst-hit state in the wake of the US financial meltdown, college fees have increased by 182 percent over the past seven years as an annual 10 percent hike still looms.
美國金融危機最嚴重打擊的加州，大學學費在過去 7年增加182%，每年上漲10%。
In Georgia, students are urged to appear in black attires to "symbolize the 'death' of our education," CNN reported.
在喬治亞州，學生應出現以黑色禮服去"象徵'教育的'死'亡'"，有線電視新聞網報導。
"We're seeing more classes taught by adjuncts and grad students who aren't getting paid (fairly). We're seeing larger class sizes, and some kids in certain majors ... can't get all the courses they need in four years," USA Today quoted Maryland student Jon Berger as saying.
Despite the federal government's financial stimulus plan for the economy, the fiscal woes of the education sector refuse to be curbed, promising heavier losses in the education system, analysts say.
"Students are paying more and getting less, and they have every right to be outraged about that," California State University chancellor Charles Reed said Wednesday.
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