Free tuition is a great idea, but in reality, many students would take advantage of the system. If there are no consequences for getting low grades, then what would motivate students to study? All of the free college plans require students to maintain a 2.5 grade point average or higher, but in my opinion that bar is not set high enough. If we are giving students free tuition they should be maintaining higher than a C average, they should be maintaining at least a 3.0 grade point average in order to get their tuition paid for in full. College students are not motivated as it is, giving them free tuition when only a C average is required will only make matters worse. Mark Arguello, an IT systems architect from San Antonio was interviewed by …show more content…
Americans need to be able to teach themselves how to learn in order to be successful in this everchanging world. In order to be good at learning students need teachers who love to teach. Friedman states “To learn how to learn, you have to love learning—or you have to at least enjoy it—because so much learning is about being motivated to teach yourself.” (310). Offering free tuition at YVC is not going to help this issue. If free tuition was offered at YVC, there would be less money to pay full-time instructors, which would result in bigger class sizes, or not enough room in the classes to accommodate the amount of students registering. In the article, Free College? Not So Fast Kevin James from U.S. News quoted Andrew Kelly, “While free college may seem like a surefire way to increase access to higher education, the effect can well be the opposite if there are fewer seats available...than there are qualified students.” This means that even though more students may be going to college, they will not be getting the best education. There will be more students than there are seats to hold them. There will be an overabundance of students and not enough teachers to provide them with the instruction and guidance they deserve. If that happens, the students will not be taught in the way community colleges are geared toward, and free tuition will be a waste. Community colleges are already packed, YVC has waitlists for classes right already, so if free tuition is offered these classes will be more jam-packed with student. The great thing about community college is the one on one time between students and teachers, if there are more students in these classes, then this precious time will be yanked away, and students will not want to learn how to learn. The closeness to the teachers is what instills a passion for learning, and motivates students to work hard on those subjects, if that is taken away,
While most people want college to be free, the U.S. should not make tuition free for all citizens. There are a number of reasons like taxing families who already have it hard, quality in education, rationing, and if people see that they do not have to pay it may lower the value in which they won 't take school seriously. Tuition free college is impossible because at the end of the day someone will have to pay for all those students attending. For example, “In college I was invested, I was paying,” The former student said, “Once it entails a cost, it’s not easy to just say, Oh, let’s not go to class today. You’re just hurting yourself” (qtd, in Make College Affordable, but Not Free). Student who barely made it
As you can see, there are more drawbacks than benefits to free college tuition once you look past the surface of it. Like I said before, at a glance, it seems perfect, flawless. However, take a deeper look and see all of the things that would need to change in order to sustain nationwide tuition-free higher education. It is not as simple as it sounds, student debt may go down, but how many other people are we putting in debt to make up for the loss of funding going to schools through the tuition that we have
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
First, free college can encourage students to go to college to get a degree which leads to a high paying career. It can fulfill those students that are having a hard time financially, and fewer students will be in debt. Second, with free college, colleges will be more likely to help students that need the guidance to stay on track and get a diploma. Clayton and Bailey mention, "If we want to significantly improve educational outcomes, we need to make college more affordable so more students can enroll, and make the reforms needed to en-sure community college students can succeed in their courses, complete their program, and grad-uate within reasonable amount of time" (Clayton and Bailey). Finally, free college can help the U.S. catch up to the rest of the countries with higher education. For example, it can help the United States surpass Russia, where more than half of adults have a diploma. Frohlich explains, “More Than 53% of Russian adults between the ages of 25 and 64 had some form of higher edu-cation in 2012, more than in any other country reviewed by OECD” (Frohlich). Although free college is an attractive idea, it will leave the United States in a bigger debt which will be hard to recover from and more students will be unmotivated to
Students who they themselves attend community college pondered on the idea of their tuition being free; one particular student Felipe Bezerra, from the article “As He Promotes It, Some Question Obama’s Free Community College Idea,” stated that the tuition of community colleges isn’t worth being free, financially needy students get the money they need and the other students barely even have to pay $2,000 every year. Students like Bezerra are more concerned about their education following community college, he knows he won’t be able to pay for tuition in university and would rather “all this
This makes students pushed harder to focus on any college that will be offered free. Thus, it wouldn’t take them longer than the average 4 years, due to them working full time as well as schooling. With fees out the way, parents don’t have to worry about not making enough savings for their child to be able to attend college. Students will be more focused on any subject in school as they strive for their degrees.
In conclusion, in order to keep this country functioning in proper way, community colleges in America should not be free. For starters, not everyone can have the privilege to receive a college education for the soul reason of scarcity. Next, free community college will affect our economy in means of higher taxes, and an increased national debt. Finally, junior colleges will plummet in terms of value. The cost of higher education is without a
No matter what age or where people are in their life, they would be able to go back to school to start or finish their higher education and fulfill what they have always wanted to do. An article “Why Free College is Necessary” Tressie McMillan Cottom presents the need for free college in the U.S. According to Cottom, “Why aren’t more people going to college? One obvious answer would be cost, especially the cost of tuition” (Cottom/115). Cottom states that basically the main reason why many people are not going to college is because of cost, plain and simple. The job opportunities people would be able to acquire would grow immensely for them, instead of being stuck at a certain job making ends meet. I have come across old friends that never considered going to college after high school because they simply could not afford to go college or even pay for a book. Tuition free colleges nationwide would help many people struggling with their jobs, bills etc. and give them motivation to want to do something better in their life by extending their education, creating new career
Over the past few years, a debate has emerged on whether or not the United States of America should provide free college education for its citizens. This topic is very controversial; however, the issues that some people see in free higher education actually have solutions, and the benefits of free college clearly outweigh its risks.
According to College Board “Between 2011-12 and 2016-17 tuition rose by 11% at public two-year colleges. So each year the tuition cost goes up at all colleges and will get more expense throughout time. According to Foster from “The Huffington Post” student loan debt in the US was estimated to be over $1.3 trillion dollars. Students having all these bills to pay can be super stressful for them and can make life difficult if they don't have the right job that they wanted. With havin free community college students can save a lot of money instead of gambling it with getting a college education. Even if life doesn't go the right path for some students that got the degree they wanted, but have no job won't be stuck with having to pay thousands of dollars for the school loans they would have to pay
While the idea of free college is often seen as beneficial only to the wealthy, college should be free for everyone because going to college could once again be seen as a choice instead of a financial problem for many households, people could also better understand others that come from different backgrounds, and there are more
For most young Americans, college has always been preached to them as being a vital part to their success in the adult world; but as they reach this educative rite of passage many find they must take out inflated loans, work part time jobs, or even become dissuaded entirely due to the exorbitant costs of higher education. We must forsake this current antiquated system in favor of government subsidized tuition. Therefore, college education must be free because of its benefit to the economy, creation of equal opportunity, and the resolution of the student loan crisis.
Free college in the United States is an unrealistic dream that cannot and should not be implemented. Free college has been implemented in other countries; however the United States’ education system will not properly function as well due to several reasons. In other countries around the globe, higher education has been largely free for those who meet the admission standards. The U.S. already provides free secondary education for all students However, this free system of education does not properly prepare students for college.
Education reform has been an ongoing debate in the United States for many years. The latest argument that many politicians, teachers and even students have debated is whether or not four-year public universities should be free. Even Barack Obama pushed for a plan that would make two-year community college free for everyone. In addition to this, Bernie Sanders has made free higher education one of his main political platforms in his presidential candidacy. According to "How America 's Colleges Could Be Tuition Free," student college debt has passed the one trillion dollar mark (collegerank.net). This number is unreasonably high. With all the hype, most people’s initial reaction would be to agree with free higher education. Knowledge and education
To give people more employment opportunities, colleges should offer free tuition. A free tuition could be a benefit for students and graduates can make more money. To get all of the benefits and to fulfill people’s needs, people should be educated. All colleges give free tuition for the students who are looking for college but can’t afford college tuition. Having free tuition at many colleges is a benefit to students.