Tuition-free college was everywhere in the U.S. It can be again
To the editor: I encourage to vary together with your characterization of tuition-free faculty as a European achievement. Free faculty as soon as existed in the US.
Within the Nineteen Sixties, I commuted by bus to Brooklyn Faculty, a part of the tuition-free and extremely rated Metropolis College of New York system. I’m undecided I might have gone to school with out it. Some notable alumni of the system embody Colin Powell, Jonas Salk, Henry Kissinger and greater than 10 Nobel Prize winners.
New York’s first tuition-free faculty was established in 1847. The nationwide motion for tuition-free increased training grew within the 1850s, with the institution of the Michigan Agricultural Faculty, which grew to become Michigan State College.
In the course of the Civil Struggle, President Lincoln signed the Land Grant Faculty Act, which established public schools in every state. This precipitated the statewide college techniques California has at the moment.
California schools and universities stopped being tuition-free when Gov. Ronald Reagan lower discovering and proposed charging charges within the Nineteen Sixties. Thus started the decline of tuition-free universities.
Herb Adelman, Del Mar
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To the editor: The editorial fails to say group schools, the good workhorses of upper training. We preserve prices to a minimal with free tuition for a lot of, free and low-cost textbook packages, and an array of free providers to help scholar success.
In fact, group schools are additionally going through the challenges posed by the pandemic along with ameliorating the challenges already confronted by lots of our first-generation and under-served college students. We’re doing all we will to supply expertise to those college students together with on-line courses.
Take a look at California’s group schools. We most likely have what you want to achieve success in our coronavirus-free future.
Mary Huebsch, Irvine
The author teaches at Santa Ana Faculty.
