It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.
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So you can go to college on Pell Grants - maybe I should not be telling anybody this because it's turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century.
The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.
More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.
The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.
Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.
While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.
Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.
I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.
College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.
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