Community colleges in California should offer two years of free education to students that are responsible. First, by making community college free for two years, struggling low income families can get a two year education at their local community college. By going to a free college people can save money for two years and transfer out to a better college with the money that they have saved. More student will switch from expensive colleges, and come to a less expensive college and acquire their Associate's degree. Next, some of the students will realize that they are going to graduate from an expensive college, and they are going to leave with a diploma and a huge debt in loans. Some people just need an Associate's Degree to get the job that they want and people can get that in two years. For example to become a police officer, people need an Associate's degree, and be twenty one years of age. Last, the crime in the cities will be reduced if community colleges would offer free education. Most people that are in the streets doing bad things are the ones who dropped out of high school because college was going to be too …show more content…
Kelderman states that ninety percent of high school seniors in the state applied to the tennessee free college program, even students that did not plan on going to college applied (3). There will be so many people taking advantage of their free education that they will be taking three to four classes, that they will not even have time to go out. They will have so much homework and they will be studying half the time. Like they say for every hour they are in class is two hours of studying.Trinko acknowledges that “When I was tempted to skip a class later in college, I’d usually think how much my education was costing -- and go” (1). Some students will be smart and take advantage of the free community college education and some will just blow it
First and foremost, Trade Schools, Colleges and Universities states, “After all, more and more of today's jobs are knowledge-based or require advanced technical skills. So a better-educated workforce would help fill many of the skills gaps that prevent America's economy from growing faster.” If more people attended college then there would be more jobs to fill in America’s economy. There have been droughts in America’s economy, but with free college tuition, droughts would decrease. It would not be fair that someone who could be successful at the job would not be granted the ability to get the job because they don’t have a piece of paper with a signature on it compared to someone who does average or mediocre at the job and had the opportunity to go to college. Making college free also comes with consequences. So graduation numbers might drop, or the people who do graduate might not be as well prepared for the workforce. Also, with more people choosing to attend public colleges because of their tuition-free status, many schools might have to create wait lists or expand the ones they already have. State budgets could become strained, which might lead to cuts and decreased access to the programs that students want to take. Here is the weakness, although it benefits many students, the nation's existing
Going to college and getting a degree is a very important factor in succeeding in the 21st century competitive world. Nonetheless, many people do not go to college because of how expensive col-lege has become and the fear of being in debt. Sometimes college does not work out for every-one. President Barack Obama has proposed a plan to make the first two years of community col-lege free to encourage people to go to college, get a degree, and make the United States the most educated country or at least catch up to the rest of the countries like Russia and Canada. Howev-er, Obama 's action of reducing the costs of community college will not significantly increase the number of students who will graduate with degrees. Instead of making college
One of his reasons is college tuition is never free because someone [taxpayers] will have to foot the bill. He also brings up the point “Students from moderately affluent middle-class families attending community college can usually afford the generally modest tuition. Why should a sophomore who is attending a four-year college have to pay tuition, but a similar second-year student at a community college not have to?” He argues “The three-year graduation rate of full-time students is 31 percent; that figure may be understated because of data limitations, but the true dropout rate is almost certainly greater than the graduation rate.” He suggests that if community colleges already have such a high dropout rate, why should it be funded, it would be a waste of taxpayer’s money. Furthermore, according to The New York Federal Reserve Bank and the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, as well as utilizing data from Bureau of Labor Statistics, Vedder says, “Half of four-year college graduates are underemployed — doing jobs requiring only a high school diploma.” Lastly, “Very-low-income students currently have no major obstacle attending community college — indeed, Pell Grants often will cover the entire tuition”, says
A $60 billion plan is being invested by Barack Obama for two free years of community colleges for American citizens in order to help with financial need. That means Obama is trying to get community colleges to be free to students that need extra support as they are living or growing up in an unstable house. Yet, community colleges being free would cause problems for many students that do not belong there. Money then would be given to all the students that are attending a community college, even though some of the students do not need extra support, nor want to be there in the first place. By doing research, it shows that community colleges are affordable to those that put forth an effort and universities would be shied away due to the price
What if one day the tuition of your community college was to become free? If you couldn 't afford college would you go? That’s exactly what President Obama is trying to propose in his State of The Union speech on January 20th 2015. In his words he claims “to lower the cost of community college, to zero”. I am a community college student freshman at Frederick Community College. Being a community college student I value my education and feel if this new proposal is to be put in place there will be people who don’t want to be there just like high school. Community college is something that runs in my family as my two cousins have attended a junior college in the past. I am in my first year at community college and can say that it is a lot different from high school as far as the expectations and work load. There are essentially some problems with this new proposal. Once I heard that President Obama
Siquerios said “ make the problem worse by drawing more students to already crowded community college campuses” which is true that most community colleges are small and if they were to be free most who will be attending public or private universities would rather go to community to do there GE’s for free then just go after to receiving their bachelors which might sound wonderful but it would m,are the campus more crowded and be less people trying to take the class they have to take because it would be full quickly. The other thing she said was “ middle- and upper-middle-class students could be competing for spots with low income students” which means that the people they're trying to get to attend community won't be because the class above them will be attending even more because of one it free and most likely were going to attend already which is not want they want because they want low income to be able to attend
We all wish that we could have a free education and not have to worry about getting loans and paying money back on time. The idea of having free community college sounds great because as adults we would be able to avoid spending more money for our education and we can also help ourselves and safe money as we go on and earning our bachelors or masters degree. In the Article “ Students, experts pick apart the pros and cons of the proposal meant to speed up degrees” by Joanne Jacobs it exhibits different point of views from different education leaders and point of why they think community college should and shouldn’t be free to everyone. In this article we are able to get a better understanding on how free college would affect everyone including
Free community college can be beneficial for the majority of American students. Personally, it affects me because I am a college student and having to work and go to college at the same time can be stressful. Work to pay for a college tuition can lead the student to an anxiety, which can lead to dropping letters grades in a specific class.
Work, work, work. Students in high school have an astronomical amount of work to do in such little time. Majority of students participate in some kind of physical activity outside of school, and the school want to force them to take subordinate classes like Physical Education that will just waste time and be in place of another class that will ready them for college. Hudson High School should allow the option for students to either play one sport every year, or take two Physical Education classes because it will allow for more efficiency among the students who want to take more classes that will better ready themselves for their college major. Hudson High School does allow for a student to take two flex credits to take the place of Physical Education, but these involve the students
Making it free for anyone to attend community college will make most students finish high school to use that as an advantage to save money. This will overflow community colleges with students. President of The Campaign for College Opportunity, Michele Siqueiros talks about how “community college will end up with a long waiting lists.” Not only will it be hard for students to get into community college but with overcrowded classrooms this will affect the students learning. Matthew Chingos the director at the Brown Center on Education Policy, tells us how “starting at a community college lowers a student’s odd of ever earning a bachelor’s degree.” Most students in their high school years won't worry about trying their best to impress high ranking colleges because they will just focus on what's free and most convenient for them. Students don't want to challenge themselves if they are giving the opportunity to have something for
Many young people would have better employment training to have and having a post-secondary education that could lead to more employment opportunities that leads to better paying jobs. If college tuition were free many students many more student can graduate and to earn their bachelor’s degree, and their associate’s degrees which would make college graduation rates increase”. Bob Samuels (President, University Counsil AFT Page 1 of
They point to national statistics indicating that public community colleges are often dead ends for students. For example, according to the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, only about 20 percent of first-time, full-time students at public two-year colleges earn associate's degrees, diplomas, or certificates within three years of starting, and only 15 percent of them go on to earn bachelor's degrees within six years. In contrast, 54 percent of students at private, nonprofit two-year schools -and 63 percent of students at private, for-profit two-years schools- graduate within three years (National Center for Education Statistics, 2017). Making community colleges free could have some negative consequences for non-traditional students who often benefit from attending private colleges or vocational schools. If the U.S. government diverts more funding toward making community colleges tuition-free, then students attending private schools could potentially lose access to federal financial aid since that could possibly be one of the tradeoffs. Those individuals would then need to decide whether to attend free public schools that would potentially be much more crowded and/or provide less effective (and less convenient)
On January 20th 2015, President Obama spoke during the State of the Union Address. In that speech President Obama talked about one surprising thing that got everybody talking. That was his proposal to make the first two years of community college free to anybody willing to work for it. A lot of Americans were for and against this new proposal for many reasons. Some can benefit low class people trying to earn a degree while it can also make it just like high school. Obama’s plan is to make college students debt a little lower than it would originally be. To be eligible for free tuition is, you have to have a GPA of 2.5 or higher, taking classes that make you a half time student, and taking classes that will be transfered to a four year college.
Alina Tugend talked about how some states offer “free or near-free community college tuition to eligible high school graduates” (Tugend, 2016). Being able to go to college without the big worry over the cost would help students focus more on their courses and on graduating. Going to college is about learning and getting a degree but the cost of tuition makes this difficult. Colleges are now trying to fix the problem to increase the graduation rate. Fixing the problems that community colleges have is strenuous and even though there are solutions it can still be difficult to perform them.
I should receive a passing grade in this class because I can write now. Not just an exaggeration, but after another semester of English I finally feel confident that can write. Three of the reasons behind my confidence is I learned, I experienced and best of all I repeated. These three values helped prepare me for what is in store in English 1302 and here is why.