How could there be any other answer?
I seriously hope Trump and his new dept of education comes up with an alternative to universities for middle class success in life. There is NO WAY (except in abject fun) college is worth the price it costs today.
College used to be a leg up over people who did not go. It used to be the difference between upper middle class lives, with great vacations, nice homes, new cars, good schools and struggling to make ends meet but making it.
Now, college hampers anyone outside of tech departments, by the cost alone, and doesn’t guarantee any better jobs for undergraduates. We need works study internships after high school. Like Europe has.
Kid picks an industry and then attends appropriate community college classes for a couple years while working for very little pay at a place where the boss has agreed to teach certain basics and then test him on them at intervals. Sure, this happens informally, but we should formalize it more. Give out certificates. Have someone be a “certified restaurant worker graduate, “ who would then be more attractive to any restaurant than some illegal off the street. That example would have the kid at 21 know how to set all kinds of tables, know the current equipment in kitchens and dish washing stations, know various sauces, how to cut costs, basic bartendering (just a little, not full bartender school), be experienced in waitering under stress, and know restaurant bookkeeping, food safety laws, and have actual experience. That kid would do better after finishing than college graduates today (who also end up waitering).
There were two students that completed most of the “home work” for athletes.
When he asked them why they were doing it, and so blatantly open about it, they told him that it is “just the way it is here.”
Too many colleges are in it for the sports or the revenue streams.