Los Angeles Times
Free Tuition Isn’t the Best Way to Improve Access to College
January 14, 2019
Jeff Abernathy, president of Alma College (MI), writes: Many politicians today perceive the idea of free tuition as a winning strategy, and it’s easy to see why. Young people are more anxious than ever about getting a college education as a path to a more successful career, and college debt is on the rise. But, despite what the term implies, free tuition is not the best way to enable more students to afford a college education.