Thomas Frey, Google’s top rated American futurist and celebrity speaker, once said that the “Overhead costs are far too high, state support is dropping, and college tuition is far too expensive. Colleges are pricing themselves out of existence.” (cite this later.) College tuition is far too high in America and it is just getting worse with each year that passes. Soon college will not be affordable for most people even with loans and because some people are starting to notice that there has been a debate on whether or not the government should make it free. While some say that it is a bad idea, getting a college should be free for students in all of America as it is in other countries. The cost of college is increasing rapidly each year and student debt is really getting out of control. Free college education is something that will benefit the people of this country in several ways. Getting this education would promote fairness, allow for more jobs to be available and open to a larger pool of applicants, and gives poorer students who cannot typically afford college a chance. Students’ getting a free education will promote fairness.
In many cases, students that are poor and do not come from a financially stable family are likely to not go to college because of the cost of it. If a college education as free, it will give more people a chance to excel in life because they can obtain better jobs and better jobs mean more money going into their pockets which is better for not only them but the economy as a whole in the long run because they will have money to spend. The cost of college is out of control in America. The cost of college is increasing at rapid rates each year and eventually it will not be affordable for anyone. Even with the help of financial aid, it will be difficult to pay back all of the loans that would need to be taken out to cover the costs of school. Tressie McMillan Cottom, in her work titled Why Free College is Necessary, argues that free college addresses the reasons why some students may not be going to school.
Fran Cubberley, in her article The Reality of Free Community College Tuition, argues in favor of Obama’s free tuition plan. She supports this claim by first going into detail on how many students choose work over school, then some of the benefits of free college tuition such employment and being able to actually get a bachelor’s degree, then finally talking about how tuition free schooling impacts the National Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC). Sara Goldrick-Rab and Andrew P. Kelly, in their forum Education Talks, debate with each other on whether or not community college should be free. Goldrick-Rab argues that instead of just making tuition free with the Obama plan, the government should go as far as providing funding for students’ living expenses and any other expenses while they are pursuing a 2-year associate degree which is similar to the G. I Bill. (Go into more detail on this point and the one after this ) Kelly argues that allowing the tuition through the Obama plan will fail to address the lack of college readiness in America and student success in school. He also believes that it will do nothing but stain public budget. Some people such as Jamaal Abdul-Alim, in his article, Free College Proposal a Threat to Private Colleges, Diversity, Some Say, informs his audience that Hillary Clinton’s free college proposal would provide a threat to private colleges. He supports his claim by first introducing a Georgetown analysis on how this would affect private colleges. Private colleges would be losing students by up to 15%. He then followed up with this by explaining how students that would typically be enrolled into “flagships” as he called them (top of the line schools such as MIT) would not be able to get in to the because schools of that level would be harder to get into while the schools underneath those kinds of school would be easier. Finally, he stated that the students attending college for free would stop them from looking from alternate ways to get the training needed for the good careers that they want. (Fix the highlighted part so that it makes sense.
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Make sure to bring up point that private colleges don’t really matter.) Matt Bruening in his work, The Case Against Free College, he argues the case that is against free college. He thinks that it is not something that needs to be happening. He develops his claim by first stating that the phrase “free college” means different things to people. He then goes on to explain that most students come from different backgrounds and that some students don’t even need for college to be free for them since they are so well off financially. To finish his claim, he says that unless student benefits are presented to students as some sort of a welfare handout, then it is practically pointless. More money than necessary would be spent and there isn’t any real benefit for anyone but the poorer families in America. (Remember to make point that Stanford started giving free tuition to students whose parents make less than 250k) Stephen M. Krason in his column, Neither Left nor Right but Catholic, he writes an article titled What’s Wrong with Guaranteeing a Free College Education. In this article he argues that getting a college education should not be free. He develops this claim by first introducing Bernie Sanders proposal and explaining some faults in it. He then addresses the other side of the argument and how there is fault in that, before he finally goes on to say his own take on the matter. He believes that college education being free would lead to many problems such as taxes rising and the fact that with more people being able to access an education, the minimum job requirement would be to have a college degree. “Sanders, proposal was supposed to be paid for by imposing tax on Wall Street speculators” (p.395).
