I think the entire thing is a sham and needs no solution.
If you’re 17, consider becoming a plumber. Or go to college. It’s your choice. I know which path I’d pick, but I’m not you. Go live your life. But I don’t need to solve the problems you make for yourself.
Hard-Working Plumber Looking Forward To Paying For His Neighbor’s Gender Studies Degree
https://babylonbee.com/news/hard-working-plumber-looking-forward-to-paying-his-for-his-neighbors-gender-studies-degree
The program dilutes higher education, basically provides a faculty-full-employment program and saps the workforce of technicians. Collect the loan payments while scrapping the program....It has bloated higher education and punished the taxpayers.