Complete two maps:

• One map will detail the "pro" arguments.
• One map will detail the "con" arguments.
• The "pro" map's claim: "Public College Should be Tuition-Free"
• The "con" map's claim: "Public College Should Not be Tuition-Free"

Using the symbols below. Map the reasons for both claims.

Pro 1

Tuition-free college will help decrease crippling student debt.

If tuition is free, students will take on significantly fewer student loans. Student loan debt in the United States is almost $1.75 trillion. 45 million Americans have student loan debt, and 7.5 million of those borrowers are in default. The average 2019 graduate owed $28,950 in college loans. Approximately 92% of US student loans are owned by the US Department of Education.

Student loan debt rose 317% between 1970 and 2021, and public college costs rose 180% between 1980 and 2019. Students are coming out of college already buried under a mountain of debt before they have a chance to start their careers.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), an advocate for free college, stated, "It is insane and counter-productive to the best interests of our country and our future, that hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford to go to college, and that millions of others leave school with a mountain of debt that burdens them for decades. That shortsighted path to the future must end."

Pro 2

The US economy and society has benefited from tuition-free college in the past.

Nearly half of all college students in 1947 were military veterans, thanks to President Roosevelt signing the GI Bill in 1944 to ensure military service members, veterans, and their dependents could attend college tuition-free. The GI Bill allowed 2.2 million veterans to earn a college education, and another 5.6 million to receive vocational training, all of which helped expand the middle class. An estimated 40% of those veterans would not have been able to attend college otherwise. GI Bill recipients generated an extra $35.6 billion over 35 years and an extra $12.8 billion in tax revenue, resulting in a return of $6.90 for every dollar spent.

The beneficiaries of the free tuition contributed to the economy by buying cars and homes, and getting jobs after college, while not being burdened by college debt. They contributed to society with higher levels of volunteering, voting, and charitable giving.

The 1944 GI Bill paid for the educations of 22,000 dentists, 67,000 doctors, 91,000 scientists, 238,000 teachers, 240,000 accountants, 450,000 engineers, three Supreme Court Justices (Rehnquist, Stevens, and White), three presidents (Nixon, Ford, and H.W. Bush), many congressmen, at least one Secretary of State, 14 Nobel Prize winners, at least 24 Pulitzer Prize winners, many entertainers (including Johnny Cash, Paul Newman, and Clint Eastwood), and many more.

During the post-World War II era, the United States ranked first in the world for college graduates, compared to tenth today.

Pro 3

Everyone deserves the opportunity to get a college education.

Jamie Merisotis, President and CEO of the Lumina Foundation, stated, "A dramatic increase in the number of Americans with college credentials is absolutely essential for our economic, social and cultural development as a country."

The rapid rise of tuition has limited access to higher education, which is essential in today's workforce: three-quarters of the fastest-growing occupations now call for education beyond high school, according to the US Department of Education. College graduates earn $570,000 more than a high school graduate over a lifetime, on average, and they have lower unemployment rates. Students from low- and moderate-income families are unable to afford as many as 95% of American colleges.

Max Page, Professor of Architecture, and Dan Clawson, Professor of Sociology, both at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, stated: "A century ago high school was becoming a necessity, not a luxury; today the same is happening to college. If college is essential for building a career and being a full participant in our democracy as high school once was, shouldn't it be free, paid for by public dollars, and treated as a right of all members of our country?"

Con 1

Tuition-free college is not free college and students will still have large debts.

Tuition is only one expense college students have to pay and accounts for anywhere from 28.9% to 73.6% of total average college costs.

On average, 2021-2022 in-state tuition at a 4-year public college cost $10,740 per year. Fees, room, and board for on-campus housing are another $11,950 . Books and supplies are another $1,240, transportation another $1,230, and other expenses cost another $2,170. Without tuition, college still costs an average of $16,590 per year.

Tuition accounts for just 20% of the average community college student's budget, which runs $18,830 annually on average.

Sweden has free college and yet students in that country had an average of $19,000 in student debt for living costs and other expenses in 2013, compared to the $24,800 in debt US college students had the same year.

Con 2

Taxpayers would spend billions to subsidize tuition, while other college costs remained high.

The estimated cost of Bernie Sanders' free college program was $47 billion per year, and had states paying 33% of the cost, or $15.5 billion. According to David H. Feldman and Robert B. Archibald, both Professors of Economics at William & Mary College: "This will require tax increases, or it will force states to move existing resources into higher education and away from other state priorities like health care, prisons, roads and K-12 education."

According to a 2016 Campaign for Free College report, states could lose between $77 million (Wyoming) and $5 billion (California) in tuition revenue from their state colleges and universities, and have to pay an additional $15,000 (Wyoming) to $55 million (New York) to subsidize a tuition-free plan.

Neal McCluskey, Director of the Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom, calculated that free college funded by tax dollars would cost every adult taxpayer $1,360 a year, or $77,500 over a lifetime. "Why should people who want to go to college get it paid for in part by people who pursue on-the-job training or other forms of noncollege education?," he wrote in the Wall Street Journal, adding, "Indeed, why should anyone get a degree to increase their lifetime earnings on the backs of taxpayers?"

College costs have increased for of a number of reasons unrelated to tuition, including fancy dorms, amenities like lazy rivers and climbing walls, student services (such as healthcare), athletics, increases in administrative personnel, and cuts in state funding.

Con 3

Tuition-free college will decrease completion rates, leaving students without the benefits of a full college education and degree.

Jack A. Chambless, Economics Professor at Valencia College, said that with a free college program, "Potentially millions of young people who have no business attending college would waste their time ? and taxpayer dollars ? seeking degrees they will not obtain... Free tuition would dupe young people into a sense of belonging, only to find that their work ethic, intelligence and aptitude are not up to the rigors of advanced education."

Under California's community college fee waiver program, over 50% of the state's community college students attended for free (before a 2017 program change), but only 6% of all California community college students completed a career technical program and fewer than 10% completed a two-year degree in six years.

Vince Norton, Managing Partner at Norton Norris, a campus marketing company, stated, "Students will enroll at a 'free college' and borrow money for the cost of attendance. Then, they will drop out and have a student loan - but no skills. Brilliant

Reference: https://www.procon.org/headlines/free-college-top-3-pros-and-cons/

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