“how much does it cost to attend franklin university for four years”
I love seeing how google and bing are going through my site and figuring up how I know things
Well, due to room, board and the cost of food it could cost up to $13,000 per year.
If you just stay at home, the undergraduate will cost about $1,200 per 4 credit hour class. I pay about 8-9k a year with my eyes on a IT minor and a CS major. Sure, it might not seem like there is much sense there but I have odd plans after the CS degree… maybe.
In four years, I do not know what that could cost you due to increased costs. Do not forget that different majors charge more.
Give Franklin a call. You will find that it is a good school. My second year has been going quite well.
This will probably be the next to last update I give on the status of my web development class at Franklin. The number one reason is that the class is pretty much over.
I did not perform as I expected. With what I figured could be applied already has not been up to snuff. What has been applied is not complete and even had bugs in them, something I am most not used to.
I had at the start a nice idea on what I wanted to do. Feature creep and life creep slowly drained what dreams I had for this most interactive site. While I have some time left to polish, as it says in the schedule, I am left with some pages that are entirely blank thus far.
I hope that the pages left blank were seen as going to be filled with examples from the text and the lessons learned so far. I assure they will be, just as this blog moved due to T1 issues that will probably never be solved in such a small town/area that I live in.
So, long live CSS, JS and the idea that you can learn something new every time you try.
It is no secret I could do without Javascript. It proved a bane when I tried to access a wireless unit, only to find that an integer I wanted was buried in a sea of Javascript that displayed it. I ended up having to use a command line javascript interpreter to get what I wanted.
That is the problem with Javascript really, is that if you do not embed the important information right, then you could end up making search engines and people alike turn to other sources or products in the future. What I mean by right is making sure that it will all degrade properly and not to rely 100% on JS for the data presentation.
I apologize in advance for not realizing the obvious nature that blogging exudes.
I rarely go back and edit one of my blog posts. I am probably more likely to change the date on the re-post manually just so my censorship will not show up. Having just realized that the URL to the blog is just a post, I shall repost to this to this one until told otherwise.
The week of 5-10 was pretty simple so far. Connect to the sftp host Einstein and upload a simple html file. The simple page I created did nothing more than show a mustard like background and a simple hello world. Nothing to write home about, but still something to be judged on.
So here I am again, taking another web class. It will never cease to amaze me that no matter how much you try to learn, there is more around to soak up and no shortage seems to exist. I see the same trend appearing with even classes that some would assume they are “above”.
For example, I can create this website, host it on a machine that I have built and know where it is physically. I keep it safe from people that try to guess passwords and then take care of email services for more than 100 people. I back up the data to another machine I have built to safeguard. There is also more than a dozen websites for local companies that are close friends that are taken care of. I of all people should be exempt from having classes such as these, right?
I have learned from previous web classes that you get what you try to learn. I have never known there was a <dd> tag until today and I can see good uses for it in the future. This is a result of studying for class, buying a $100 book that is big enough to kill an elephant and taking the time to read the first chapter.
By the end of this class, I expect my raw HTML skills will be much better and the years of scars from learning HTML 2.X will finally fade.
Healthcare is obviously a vital expenditure for any country and most important to the people that obtain the care. In contrast to the rest of the world, the United States spends more than any other but does not boast a higher life expectancy than other countries, like Japan. The major factors in the cost of the healthcare inflation are drugs, staffing and more than any other, administration costs. Reports say that the United States spends over $400 billion more than other countries on healthcare but yet there is no significant disease behind the rise, which should be the reasoning for the much higher cost of care (Angrisano, Farrell, Kocher, Parker, & Laboissiere, 2007). What is driving the higher cost of care which appears to not benefit the public in the United States as much as other nations?
If there is a higher health care cost, then the appropriate thought is that there should be a better quality of life, which should lead to a longer life. However, high health care costs drive the public away from the doors of a hospital to seek treatment, even for problems that the patient deems serious (National Coalition on Health Care). The reasoning not to seek treatment is clear to many of the 1.4 million debtors that filed for bankruptcy in 2001. A study suggests that as many as half of the bankruptcy cases were due to just health care expenses (Himmelstein, Warren, Thorne, & Woolhandler, 2005).
Is bankruptcy by the public the reason that health care costs are so grossly inflated? Reporting by the group McKinsey gives no mention to bankruptcy being the problem, or even attributed bad debt to the rise. However, in Anchorage, hospitals are drawing a line from charity cases to higher costs. Charity cases are simply bad debt written off by the hospital, which by one estimate from Alaska in 1999 was $14 million. In contrast, another hospital in Alaska lost nearly half of the profits in just three years from $40 million for the year 2000 to $13 million in 2003, but climbed back two years later to recover “somewhat” to $27.5 million in profits (Dobbyn, 2005). For an institution that is dedicated to the care of the sick, profits of over $20 million seem hardly the problem for a higher cost to those that do have health care.
If the cost of bankruptcy is causing the higher cost of health care, then the solution for lowering the cost appears to the common layperson is to simply get healthcare. Unfortunately, this is still not the answer as the higher cost to the public that is insured still drives them to bankruptcy, as the average medical cost was over $12,000 even with coverage. In a study from 2001 of nearly 1,700 bankruptcy filings, a staggering 75% of those asked had health coverage at the onset of the filing. To make matters worse, since the debtors that had private insurance were out of work due to the illness, they could no longer afford the insurance and the costs rose higher (Himmelstein, Warren, Thorne, & Woolhandler, 2005).
From the Harvard study of 1,700 bankruptcy filings, a statistic stands out that can possibly explain the reasons behind lowered quality of care and the higher health care cost. The costs of the health care is divided up at around 45% to the hospital, doctors charged 20% and finally the prescription drugs needed to maintain health attributed to 21% of the cost. The debtors are given a charity case by the hospital that is making the lion’s share of the profits, a life preserver that should help stop a bankruptcy. However, the debtor can still be faced with bankruptcy due to the cost of the ongoing doctor and prescription care that combined is the cost that was forgiven by the institution (Himmelstein, Warren, Thorne, & Woolhandler, 2005).
From all this information, it seems likely to conclude that the cost of drugs and the doctor care is what drives bankruptcy. This makes more sense when the average cost of drugs in the United States is over 60% more than in other nations that have better life expectancy (National Coalition on Health Care).
References
Angrisano, C., Farrell, D., Kocher, B., Parker, S., & Laboissiere, M. (2007). Accounting for the Cost of Health Care in the United States. McKinsey & Company.
Dobbyn, P. (2005, July 21). Hospital bad debt driving costs up. Retrieved November 23, 2008, from Anchorage Daiily News: http://dwb.adn.com/front/story/6730104p-6617727c.html
Himmelstein, D. U., Warren, E., Thorne, D., & Woolhandler, S. (2005). MarketWatch: Illness and Injury as contributors to Bankruptcy. Health Affairs .
National Coalition on Health Care. (n.d.). Health Insurance Costs. Retrieved November 23, 2008, from National Coalition on Health Care: http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml
I am fortunate enough to enjoy learning. I should rephrase that as: “I am fortunate enough to crave learning in order to help others.”
Being in higher education has, in my opinion, shown that there really is a need for all this debt that students rack up. I chose to post something to my blog and share it with the class to show part of my Idealist life. I leave all of my posts open to comments and choose to moderate them due to spam alone. I have deleted a couple comments these two years, not due to them disagreeing with me but due to the comment being inappropriate.
For my choice of further resources I could use to improve my grammar, I chose http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.shtml . I found that out of all the choices, it would prove the most useful since I could easily use it with an iPhone app called gFlash+ . The best thing is that you do not need an Internet connection to use it, so you can be in the middle of nowhere (aka 2 miles out of town in WV) and take a quiz where you will not accidently see the answers. The simple format of questions and answers could be easily manipulated into the template spreadsheet using the programming language Python.
I have used gFlash+ while standing in line at the store, waiting for a customer to finish talking on the phone or while waiting for someone to give my car a jumpstart. So far, I have just used it as a quiz tool for learning new words but dailygrammar has such a common format for answers that I can program a macro to split and copy/paste entire blocks of answers.
I intend to do such a program and enlist my wife to help me, since she is starting school soon too.
You can get into Axia, otherwise known as the University of Phoenix very quick.
How quick?
They, the Enrollment Counselor at Phoenix will walk you through on the phone and tell you what to click in order to get your MPN, otherwise known as your Master Promissory Note. This MPN is what locks you into the loans you are asking for, like subsidized and unsubsidized loans. You will get immediate help and be nudged into getting it done quickly.
The University of Phoenix are a polite staff that have a deferment policy that forces you to sign a MPN with their list of Lenders. This list, if you do not choose one on it will force you to wait until fianancial aid comes to start. There are good lenders on the list, I had no problems with Wells Fargo for instance. The nudging gets _HARD_ at this point for you to sign as you are one step closer to being locked into paying loans.
Franklin.edu on the other hands forces you to take a test in order to sign the MPN. This test makes you understand all the aspects of the MPN and what you will expect in the future. Phoenix does not force you to answer questions, rather, they just ask that you agree without expecting you to show knowledge about the subject.
If you want to know what you are getting into, Franklin will test you on the subject of borrowing money. Phoenix will show you the information and quickly speak on the phone to get you started but requires no testing of the pitfalls of Stafford loans.
Franklin is looking out for you as there exists the possibility you might not understand what is going on. I must concur at this point that Phoenix, while good for some students, is interested in money first then education. I received my education the first year but can fully understand why some did not and are left with bills to pay.
