Good ruling. It’s about time.
I paid my way through college, let everyone else do the same. If it’s too expensive, then go to community college for the first 2 years. Like I did.
I paid my way through medical school, $800/year x 4.
Now, it's $90,000 x 4, and nobody is paying their way through that.
Fortunately, my tuition at a service academy was paid for me, though some claimed it was shoved up you know where a nickel at a time.
But the education started at graduation.
My (former state) strongly supports the community college system as both a feeder to the flagship universities and providing degrees in additional career fields, many of which are not addressed in traditional universities. Example, imagine getting a BS degree in Aviation Electronics.
IMHO paying one's own way through college is very difficult now and probably beyond difficult for most. Price escalation has rendered that unreachable. The fake degree field representing nonviable career fields are sucking the viability, ROI out of university level degree programs.
When I was getting my STEM degrees (two) in the 1970s, working your way through was was an option. Difficult but possible although it would most likely take a year or two of extra time for most. College loans were available but were through banks, not the Fed.
Cheers…. Hoot…