Questioning the Case for Free College: Prices, Financial Aid, and Student Debt in Public Higher Education

Autor/in	Delisle, Jason D.
Institution	American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Titel	Questioning the Case for Free College: Prices, Financial Aid, and Student Debt in Public Higher Education
Quelle	(2020), (70 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Access to Education; Higher Education; Federal Aid; Tuition; Public Colleges; Politics of Education; Costs; Program Effectiveness; Student Financial Aid; Paying for College; Debt (Financial); Foreign Countries; Educational Finance; College Students; Grants; Fees; State Aid; Tax Credits; Private Financial Support; Student Loan Programs; Parent Financial Contribution; Low Income Students; Educational Attainment; Chile; United States; Asia; Europe; Australia; North America; New Zealand; National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NCES) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Cost; Kosten; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Ausland; Bildungsfonds; Collegestudent; Grant; Gebühren; Studiengebühren; Steuerermäßigung; Private Investition; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; USA; Asien; Europa; Australien; Nordamerika; Neuseeland
Abstract	Federal free-college policies are now at the center of the Democratic higher education agenda. Sen. Bernie Sanders helped move the idea into the mainstream during the 2016 presidential campaign, and other lawmakers have since worked to advance the policy in Congress. Joe Biden effectively put free college on the ballot in 2020 when he fully endorsed Sanders' original proposal to give federal matching grants for states to provide free tuition at public colleges and universities. A Democratic victory in Congress and the White House in 2020 would all but guarantee that such a policy is enacted. In response to the growing support for a federal free-college policy, the author assembled a collection of reports on the topic that were published over the past two years by the American Enterprise Institute, AEI's "National Affairs," or the Brookings Institution. The first report in this compilation, "The Cost of Free-College Plans," which appeared in the spring 2020 edition of "National Affairs," offers an overview of the basic design of federal free-college proposals like those advanced by Sanders and Biden. The second report, "Evidence Against the Free-College Agenda: An Analysis of Prices, Financial Aid, and Affordability at Public Universities," which was originally published by AEI in May 2020, explores a key claim underlying the free-college agenda: whether rising college tuition prices are as severe as proponents believe. The third report in this volume, "Free College and the Debt-Free Fantasy," also published by AEI, examines another argument that free-college proponents make. In their view, rising tuition prices at public colleges are a major cause of the rapid increase in outstanding student debt over the past two decades, which now stands at over $1.5 trillion. The last two reports in the volume, "Lessons from Chile's Transition to Free College" and "International Higher Education Rankings: Why No Country's Higher Education System Can Be the Best," provide an international perspective to the free-college debate. [This report was written with Andrés Bernasconi and Preston Cooper.] (ERIC).
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Update	2024/1/01