Students in their fourth year at Einstein, located in the Bronx in New York City, will be reimbursed for the spring 2024 semester, and beginning in August, tuition will be free “in perpetuity,” the school said Monday.
Students in their fourth year at Einstein, located in the Bronx in New York City, will be reimbursed for the spring 2024 semester, and beginning in August, tuition will be free “in perpetuity,” the school said Monday.
I agree that college (or at least public schools) should be free, but is there a way to do that on the federal level when they’re always state schools? And, of course, good luck getting Republican legislatures to agree to that. Keeping the poor ignorant and only allow them a way out if they sign up for the military sort of seems like their sort of thing.
We already fund a significant portion of schools federally, even if the majority of funding is local. An argument can be made that education can be considered interstate commerce since people can move at any time and take their education with them.
That said, when I took my first semester at a state university in the 90s it was able to be paid with a summer job working minimum wage while my parents paid for the dorm. Four years prior I could have paid for the dorm and the entire year with the same summer job, but university costs had doubled in four years because the state funding was cut and they shifted the costs onto the students. It has only gotten worse since.
Yeah, i started college in '99. After only 2 years at the school tuition increased 125%. And yes, it keeps getting worse.
Maybe this will shed some light on what a billion dollars can really do. I know this is a small school, but to be able to say “in perpetuity” is a big deal and means there could be a scalable plan to work on a federal (or state if we could get the red states to cooperate) level.