Governments should offer a free university education to any student who has been admitted to a university but who cannot afford tuition.
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
It is in the best interest of every nation state that its population be as well-educated and as well-equipped to contribute to society as it can be, and universities play a vital role in that mission. But when a college education is prohibitively expensive, as we are seeing today in the United States, this not only impedes that goal but also reinforces structural inequalities. However, while I agree that higher education needs to be more financially accessible to more of the population, I disagree that free college tuition is the best solution to this problem. Rather, I see robust tuition assistance programs and a sliding scale payment system as a more appropriate remedy that would avoid some of the risky effects that a free college policy would certainly produce.
College today is extremely costly. In the past 30 years alone, the cost of tuition has skyrocketed from an average of about $5,000 per year to a heart-attack inducing $22,000. Whereas past generations boast about having been able to put themselves through college by working summers, most of today's middle and lower class youth cannot hope to independently afford the costs of attending university, even if they were working a full time job. Even with government or institutional financial aid and scholarships, the average student is also forced to take out loans. With millions of college graduates now burdened by trillions of dollars of student loan debt, we're seeing a whole generation financially handicapped and unable to fully participate in society and the economy. Not only do these alumni struggle to repay their loans for decades, but this dampens their ability to get a foothold in other important areas of life, like home ownership. Millenials are slower to get married, slower to buy homes, less likely to invest, less likely to take career risks such as starting their own businesses, and less likely to spend on luxury products and services, than their predecessors were. All of this severely hinders the country's economic growth. Taking this picture into account, it would seem the obvious solution would be to make college more affordable.
Making college more affordable would not only free millions from the life-damaging finacial risk of student loans, but would also have the added side effect of promoting greater social mobility and equality. In the United States, the high cost of college creates an additional barrier to success for students from low-income and minority neighborhoods. These students who stand the most to gain from higher education are the very same students whose families cannot afford to pay for their tuition. Potentially brilliant future scientists, engineers, and innovators miss out on the opportunity to develop their skills simply because their socioeconomic background denies them the means to enroll. In order to create more opportunity to rectify the effects that decades of discrimination and structural proverty have produced, we need to make sure that universities are accessible to these students. Lowering the financial barrier is necessary to do that.
Certainly, making university accessible to all students regardless of their background should be the goal in order to strengthen our workforce and enable more people to pursue their full potential. But does that mean the government should offer free education to any student who has been admitted? I would argue only if the student cannot otherwise afford it. Still, I think the solution needs to be a little more nuanced than that. I think it is important that government assistance programs operate on a sliding scale, where students pay based on their available means. Students who are able to pay the full cost should do so, while students who cannot afford it should receive tuition assistance from the government. I also think that universities and colleges have an important part to play in the solution, by lowering their (let's be honest) obscene price tags.
I will grant that having the government pay for students' tuition if they can't afford it would incur a huge cost to the country, on the scale of trillions of dollars. At the same time, this is money well invested. It will pay off in the long run, to have a greater number and greater diversity of highly educated citizens contributing to all parts of society. To finance a free college program like this would demand some creativity in how we generate funds for public programs, but I don't think it's anything that a tax hike on the super wealthy wouldn't fix!
Nelson Mandela, famous South African activist, liberator, and politician, once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." And it's true. There's a proven connection that with more education comes better health, better job opportunities, more financial stability, better quality of life, more political participation, and overall more happiness. Education is also the only way we as a society can continue to innovate and solve some of the greatest challenges we're facing like climate change, immigration, and poverty. We owe it to ourselves to invest as much as we can in higher education and ensure that lack of money is never a barrier to a student who otherwise has the ability the succeed. One part of the solution will be reducing the prohibitively high costs of education that are precluding the majority of people from being able to afford school without taking out loans. In parallel, a thoughtful government program offering tuition assistance on a sliding scale to any student who has been accepted but cannot afford to attend university, will help us achieve this vision.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, still, then, well, whereas, while, i think, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.5258426966 169% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 27.0 12.4196629213 217% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 30.0 14.8657303371 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 28.0 11.3162921348 247% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 76.0 33.0505617978 230% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 122.0 58.6224719101 208% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 39.0 12.9106741573 302% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 4731.0 2235.4752809 212% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 924.0 442.535393258 209% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12012987013 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.51338084184 4.55969084622 121% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81654778537 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 429.0 215.323595506 199% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464285714286 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1506.6 704.065955056 214% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 6.24550561798 240% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 12.0 1.77640449438 676% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 11.0 4.38483146067 251% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 35.0 20.2370786517 173% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.3902129291 60.3974514979 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.171428571 118.986275619 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.4 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.25714285714 5.21951772744 43% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 25.0 10.2758426966 243% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219058663994 0.243740707755 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0589793962869 0.0831039109588 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0755847864686 0.0758088955206 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123490017786 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.064422004304 0.0667264976115 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 223.0 100.480337079 222% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.7820224719 136% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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