College has become massively political to the point that professors swing 90+% in one political direction often without 1 in 100 or 1000 registered in the other direction.
The political side that college swings now wants college free and more common.
I got a phd and then taught at college for a number of years. Professors preach political stances as much as some religions. I'm probably clinically centrist / not aligned either way, and it was clear that was an unacceptable if not heretical position to hold as a professor. Students of different politics than their professors frequently feel like they have to lie in papers to parrot their professors worldview to get a good grade. I left I'm part because I got sick of my coworkers mocking people who don't think like them or aren't a proud atheist as stupid, and the opposite politics is frequently demonized.
If you want to know who is coming out ahead, that part can't be removed. If you want to maximize the number of people who are preached a particular set of politics and worldview, our current policy would be in line with that. Even if that's not the core reasoning, it's too tightly aligned to be removed. If college is free next election it played like a football every 8 years back and forth.
The political side that college swings now wants college free and more common.
I got a phd and then taught at college for a number of years. Professors preach political stances as much as some religions. I'm probably clinically centrist / not aligned either way, and it was clear that was an unacceptable if not heretical position to hold as a professor. Students of different politics than their professors frequently feel like they have to lie in papers to parrot their professors worldview to get a good grade. I left I'm part because I got sick of my coworkers mocking people who don't think like them or aren't a proud atheist as stupid, and the opposite politics is frequently demonized.
If you want to know who is coming out ahead, that part can't be removed. If you want to maximize the number of people who are preached a particular set of politics and worldview, our current policy would be in line with that. Even if that's not the core reasoning, it's too tightly aligned to be removed. If college is free next election it played like a football every 8 years back and forth.