Dreams Deterred: How Federal Policies Keep the Poor Out of College
The article blames the feds instead of the universities and colleges that use the monies badly by jacking up infrastructure costs, closing off access instead of genuinely opening up access. Why pay schools more if they are undermining the goals of helping the non upper crusties to gain access to college or university?
There’s also no discussion of the fact that second and third tier schools have learned that by increasing prices greatly, applications increase several fold, even though there has been no change to the academic rating of the school. Again, this closes off opportunity to applicants who have less funding.
There’s also no mention that a working person often works through college. In getting a job, many Americans go to school at night. Lots of companies offer tuition reimbursement. Because this road is so challenging, the people who put themselves through school are more appealing candidates for management jobs than those who who had someone else work for their tuition (that would include students funded by the Mom and Dad Bank).
