Gov. Corbett dishes sparing helping to Cherry & White

Gov. Corbett dishes sparing helping to Cherry & White

On March 8, 2011, after months of speculation, Corbett announced his budget cut plans for higher education. He is planning on cutting Temple University's funding by 50%. This will effect current as well as future Temple students drastically. While many students do not rely on government funding on school, many other students, like myself do.
I came to Temple as an out of state student, which meant i gave up all state funding from New Jersey. If I had stayed in NJ, i would have been fully funded by financial aid.
I gave that up to go to Temple, Where the tuition was double and my new financial aid package was less than half the years tuition. I did this to "invest" in my future. I went out of state to go through Temples Journalism program, to have that name on my resume as well as meet the contacts I would need to succeed in this field. I took on this burden of loans thinking that tuition would not change (much) during my two years at Temple, I was even expecting more in financial aid this year due to my newer "independent" status.
Now Governor Corbett may have ruined my investment, and made me waste a year at Temple. If I get less in financial aid this year, i will not be able to afford the difference after maxing out federal student loans. This may force me to transfer back to Jersey and have to restructure my curriculum to do this.
Temple students are scared-we should be.
Corbett should be investing money in the future, not cutting from it. When he retires, it is us, current college students that will be running the show. We need to be qualified and not angry about what our older population allowed to happen.