How do you think policy makers should go about balancing the goals of ensuring equality of access to higher education for all Americans while addressing the competing demands for the nation’s scarce financial resources?
What will be an ideal response?
Students should discuss the need for education in order to prepare the nation for the increasing demands for technological and scientific innovation in the future with the reality of college costs and student debts. Students may discuss the rising costs of student tuition and room and board and how those may be addressed at the institutional level as well as the availability of affordable student financing, including expanded grants and loans along with more creative incentive-based payoff systems, in order to account for a future “student debt bubble,” which could be as bad as or worse than the housing bubble of 2008.
Students may suggest their own solutions and/or discuss problems in a different perspective but should be aware of the competing demands of a well-educated society with the costs of creating such a well-trained society.
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