Should the U.S. Provide Free Tuition for Public College Students who Maintain Good Grades? – Higher Education

Getting a college degree is not only to get a good job, education makes life better and allows you to think smarter. Also, getting an education changes a whole person by taking more advantages, and having more opportunities. Nowadays, the demand of higher education has increased. After 20th century, we have improved our way of living because most of our people got educated. Graduated students have a greater chance to get a better job than the once without graduated. Education helps students to build opinions and have points of view on things in life. Higher education would become the preserve of wealthy families who can afford to send their children to university. Therefore there is a strong case for the government providing higher education free at the point of use.

? The world needs smarter leaders now, and only the students could provide the knowledge. The population of the every nations increases every year, and we need intelligent leaders as well as people to understand the situation and find the solution. Education would not only help individual, but beneficial for nation too; it would help both private and public benefits. Education affected as one of the biggest factors that will determine the nation's fate going forward. After all, today's jobs are knowledge-based or require advanced technical skills. So a better-educated workforce would help fill many of the skills that help growing America’s economy faster. A better educated population could lead to faster progress in solving our most difficult challenges by making smarter decisions at every level of society.

Many top-performing high school students never apply to most challenging university or colleges even though they are able to succeed at them; they would choose less selective school instead. Free education affects many poor students because rich students don’t really care about fees. Many poor students afraid to go to college because they cannot afford it and only poor students know the real value of getting an education; it means a lot to them. Surviving in this world gives them loads of tension including higher education. Since, these students wish themselves to get a degree, then the government should provide them all the comforts so they can reach their goals. Moreover, the government can encourage them to continue on to higher education by providing them free tuition. Therefore, free tuition policy will give equality to all students. Jon Weiner, an American historian and journalist, talks about higher student loans which is unnecessary. “ The purpose of education is not just to enable people to increase their lifetime incomes; it’s to help them understand the world, to stimulate the imagination and inspire creativity in all fields. A good society provides opportunities for everyone. We need educated people. And we should be willing to pay to educate them.”(Weiner)

In addition, president Barack Obama explained very well in “Obama proposal”that, giving all students diploma is nation’s first priority and all students should complete their diploma without dropping. Every American should get more than high school education because country needs talent of each Americans. In “Obama Plan Would Help Many Go to Community College Free”, he said, “I would propose a government program to make community college tuition-free for millions of students, an ambitious plan that would expand educational opportunities across the United States.” He also said, education should become equal right for every student in the United States because they will get a degree not for themselves, they will get it for nation because country needs their knowledge to achieve all success.

The rate of unemployment will reduce if students keep getting a college degree. In today’s world, a student’s chances of getting a better paying job depends on his or her achievement. In the same manner, the chances of getting job is only depends on higher degree, and if mostly students could get higher degree then the unemployment rate would reduce by itself. If that would happen, the government get more chances to worry about other problems than unemployment. However, unemployment became biggest problem for nation because it connected to its economy.

If every students get college degree, doesn’t mean they all will have better job, or they will get a job which they wanted since beginning. Based on data, not all the companies requires only associate degree. Nowadays, companies expecting students to have more degrees than just associate. The competition has increased, a person is nothing without a degree.

Technically, free college isn't really free. Someone does have to pay for it. In the case of free public colleges, that means taxpayers, but some economists believe that every American who wants to could go to college for free if the federal and state governments made a few reasonable changes. They don't see the concept as a fantasy. Their ideas is to increase taxes of America's wealthiest millionaires and billionaires. They are planning to closing corporate tax loopholes which allow companies to legally avoid paying their full share of taxes, and decreasing the military budget. Also, they seeing to crack down on wasteful government spending. Moreover, opponents of free college believe that it would be expensive for federal and state government to keep this long term. They concerns that the quality of education would enter in danger zone if the demand of free college increases. Senators mentions that we can make it sound free if taxpayers would contribute paying the tuition. They concerns about civilians too that why would they pay more taxes; so the question is “who pay the cost”. President Obama have explained the opponents to think about the students careers and the nation’s benefits.

Vince Nordon, worker in higher education administration, totally disagree on free tuition policy. He says

“Meanwhile, is the “free college” really free? Of course not. Public education is funded primarily by property tax. So taxes will go up and all property owners – whether they have college-age children or not – will, in fact, pay for the free college. No, let me reword that. They will pay for the free tuition while soon-to-be college dropouts use student loans. Then, when the students attending “free” college default on their student loan, the taxpayer will once again shoulder the burden(Vince Nordon)”.

He believes that letting government pay for the entire tuition would be disaster for civilians. Similarly, free education is way too expensive for some states. This outcome might change the education system. More students would attend colleges and the government would have to provide more like more books, more professors, more staff members, more new buildings etc. The students might take turn and go to private schools because of quality of the education. Some opponents say that only twenty percent of first time, full time students at 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. So making community colleges free could have some negative consequences for non-traditional students who often benefit from attending private colleges or vocational schools. So far, there are three problems: the poor academic track record of community college attendees, the potentially very negative economic growth implications from financing so-called free college, and even some fairness issues. The most recent National Student Clearinghouse data shows that 47% of community college enrollees drop out of school, far more than the 27% who graduate. Other research shows that completion rates fall the less students pay towards the cost, hinting that free tuition might raise already scandalously high dropout rates.

At the end, there are positive and negative effects, the government have to pick one. Free education is really beneficial for students and nation both, but the only question comes that “where would the money come from?” If an american student graduates with less than $10000, they would considered lucky as other countries students. However, two opposite sides will always exist and they both have valid states prove their points. Free tuition would become problem for now but it will give you the best result in future. 

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