Biden free college a reality?

[bluebooger]

I love when conservatives complain about all the people with “worthless” women’s studies and English degrees but fight tooth-and-nail to defend the free market system that produces these graduates.

I doubt many conservatives fights tooth-and-nail to defend the free market system that produces these graduates.
I think most would be in favor of Hungary's and Poland's solution of banning gender studies and other such programs no matter what the market demand is.

In fact I would be in favor of stopping all federal student loans and grants except for STEM degrees

let them spend some time improving their grades and filling in the gaps in their education. That is not how our free market system works, of course.

it actually is if we would get rid of student loans completely.

take away student loans and see how the free market actually affects the "studies" degrees
enrollment would plummet because no one could afford the degree and then the university would be forced to drop the tuition or drop the degree.

tuition and enrollment is artificially inflated because of loans -- not because the job market demands people with these degrees
there may be a market for these degrees because students demand them, but only because they can afford them due to loans

and if we got rid of loans ...
Can't afford to go to New York University ? Then go to Bronx Community College for two years and get and associates degree in a marketable skill and then try transferring to NYU.
Or get a job with your associates degree and go to NYU at night.
Or forget NYU and just dedicate yourself to your job.

Don't want to go to community college ?
Then join the Coast Guard or Air Force or Navy.
Serve 4 to 6 years and then have them pay for your school.

If you DIDN’T graduate, you had to pay for the educational resources that you basically wasted. I don’t know if that’s true, but to me that is also a fantastic idea.

now that is an awesome idea

Let’s close most small colleges. ... but, because of the free market, we can’t do it with colleges.

I don't think it has anything to do with the free market
small colleges might need to exist because of location or degree specialty --- Colorado School of Mines only has about 6 000 students and I think it should definitely stay open -- 6k may not be really small, but it is certainly smaller than Harvard with 23 000 students

and size of a college isn't necessarily related with efficiency or cost
a large school could be terribly inefficient -- sure, putting 150 students in a classroom might be efficient when it comes to hiring teachers and allocating space for classrooms, but its not efficient for learning
I'd rather go to a small nursing school with lots of individual attention than be just another scrub in a scrub at a huge nursing school

Let’s prioritize vocational training as an alternative or even an addition to higher education

yes, a thousand times yes