re: If college were free, how many more people would have a degree?

College professor here! Definitely against free tuition - if there’s no money coming in, there will be no facility upgrades, no quality in teaching or research bc the pay wouldn’t be worth it, etc.

However, I do wish the loan system would be cut drastically and only given to the top 30% of students - at least until the lower students can go through a year of college and show some level of success. The loan system has universities letting in students who have no business even sniffing a college campus.

I have one student now...I’m actually angry that the university would admit her - angry on her behalf because she is getting completely scammed. She can barely form a coherent sentence and has little in the way of comprehension skills - reading or otherwise. Even if she does manage to complete her degree, she won’t be able to get a job that would be any better than if she didn’t go to college. And then she’ll have a massive amount of debt to go along with it.

We have to stop making a college degree this big thing that everyone should have. Society needs blue-collar workers! We need sanitation workers, welders, auto-mechanics, Walmart employees, plumbers, et al.

Yes.

College isn't right for everyone.

This will be a colossal waste of money...but the Dems never have never cared about this.

This is their chance to take total control of all education.

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college were free, how many more people would have a degree?

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If college were “free” (tax payer funded tuition), how much higher would college tuition and cost rise? We saw first hand college tuition explode after government guaranteed student loans. If you want to eliminate this “crisis”, then get government out, make the universities guarantee the loans.

Dems love attacking private business or corporations for cost and greed, but dead silent on college tuition and cost rising 77%... most of that since government involvement.

In the mid 1980s, semester tuition at LSU (full time) was $900. Today, that would be $2,118.00.

Actual semester tuition for LSU this Spring?

$5,945.00 (more than double).

This will not improve if "free college for all" becomes a thing.

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I think the more important question to ask is why are college degrees necessary for most jobs?

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While there is a lot of truth in this, if you are filling a position, and you’ve got fifty applicants, what is the first cut you are going to make?

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Besides, we already have free college. It’s called joining the service. Been that way for 70+ years

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I get the spirit of what you’re saying here and it’s right... except for one thing. Not everyone is allowed to serve. The military does turn people away - many of whom excel at college.

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Does Germany still screen kids out from college around middle school age?

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Yes and so does France and many other European countries I’m sure. Personally I’d love to see this solely for the meltdown that would occur when many of these ignorant libs find out that they aren’t able to go to college and are encouraged to go to a vocational school because they aren’t as intelligent as they think they are. Oh and the calls of racism that would occur when minority enrollment drops because the policies they advocated for ultimately harms minority college participation.

The US needs this sort of system badly. Bring back shop, woodworking, home ec, etc. take the kids that have no business going to college on track to learn a craft. Some crafts offer six figure incomes, and at least on the Gulf Coast, there are shortages of welders, instrument/analyzer techs and such. For the relatively small percentage that do make it through a 4 year college, there are a lot that end up with useless degrees.