For every 30¢ the federal government spends to make college “affordable,” the cost of college goes up $1.00. Get the feds out of education and watch it become affordable again and the need for loans goes away.
How about paying professors 6 figure salaries to teach one course. Hello, Elizabeth Warren.
Wow. Talk about putting your money where your mouth is.
> his family was providing a grant to eliminate the student debt of the entire Class of 2019 <
Well, that’s nice. But what about the kids who took a job after school each day, to avoid taking on debt? What about them? I guess they’re all suckers.
A better choice would have been to give each graduate a start-up gift of $15,000, or whatever.
Kids and families who worked hard and paid their own way MUST FEEL STUPID NOW!
Its his money and if he wants to spend it that way, I applaud him.
I do like that he didn’t say ‘Black, Hispanic or Minority Students ONLY!”
‘Mike’ Obama would say black girls from single mom families only.
Good on Robert Smith! - I always liked The Cure, great music.
They’d be better students and people if they’d just work their way through.
lets see... MC tuition is 26,742USD per, times 4, so that $1.5M isn't going to come anywhere near paying off their loansWell that was nice of him. :D
I wonder what the reaction was from families who had scrimped and saved or students who had done the same or served in the military to put themselves through that school.