I’ve got a better idea...
We do away with tenure and unions on college campuses, and require Profs to teach full time, not just a class or two a week.
Then we open up public universities to retired business professionals that want to teach, in fact that should be the preferred 1st choice option of filling the openings.
Trim out the deadwood and communist doctrinaires’, and college tuition can be reduced to a reasonable amount, say $7K -$10K a year.
All government funding for everything but STEM degrees should be ended. If you want a degree in anything that ends with “Studies” you can pursue that in a private institution, or a drum circle.
We’ll start there and refine it as we go.
Skip all that. Get government out of the education business all together. Their record is of failure, not success.
Last night I listened to a Dem committeeman opine about how a charter school started up and took all the smart kids. Now the poor public school teachers, with all their certificates and degrees in education, were stuck with the dummies. These kids couldn’t read or do math. Go figure.