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    Debt is not debatable about how serious a crisis it is. College is expensive. With such a serious topic at hand, there is no doubt people are trying to find a solution. One idea–make college free. Free college for everyone is something some politicians preach. There goal would be to abolish all tuition and fees associated with all public 4-year colleges for families of income under $125,000. Then abolish all tuition and fees for community colleges regardless of the family’s income. The goal, of course

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    In “Preparing for a Career”, Derek Bok, president of Harvard Law School and author, argues how universities, more specifically liberal arts colleges, should include training for a certain occupation with regular college classes to better prepare a student for the real world after college. Considering that Bok has earned his degrees at some of the most well-known universities like Stanford University and Harvard, he has a better understanding at what students are missing and what they need to be successful

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    Should Community College be Free? Over the past few years, President Barack Obama has proposed to make to the first two years of Community College free. Many school and state officials have touched upon this issue. Some officials completely agree with President Obama saying that more students would enroll to community colleges which would increase their chances of obtaining a bachelor’s degree. I, with many others, disagree with this idea. Making Community College free would mean more tax dollars

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    Austin Community College (ACC) has many campuses located around Austin, Texas. Highland campus is one of the newest campus located at Highland Mall and was officially opened on 2014 fall semester. This campus is also one of ACC’s largest campuses, with capacity to serve 6000 students in its first phase. The Highland Campus is located near the north junction of Interstate 35 and Highway 290. The location provides convenient and unparalleled rail and bus access as well as ample parking for students

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    The American Community College system is an essential institution which provides not only education for all types of learners, but also outreach and community service for the region each individual College serves. Each Community College strives to create an environment where both academic achievement and quality of life of each student can improve. Community Colleges also carry outreach programs that seek to improve quality of life for an entire region, including individuals who may not be students

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    As a student from another school, you have to know which combined GPA courses apply to your transcript with the goal that you will meet the prerequisite of that particular college that you need to go to. You need to keep up a high GPA in every one of your courses that you will take at a junior college, which will qualify you for a grant and scholarship that will look great on your school transcript and resume for future managers. ACA 122 likewise shows understudies to be conscious to

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    Question Obama’s Free Community College Idea” by Joanne Jacobs, there are many students that have expressed their pro and cons ideas about President Barack Obama’s free college plan. According to Latino students in Deborah Santiago of Excelencia in Education, they believe that free-tuition for colleges will have “a powerful impact” which can be seen eye to eye when exploring the idea of free-tuition college. There will be a powerful impact in schools and homes everywhere when college tuition becomes free

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    “The only way to make an exceptional living in life is to go to college,” I heard a thousand time’s during High School. Thousands of students graduate and apply to Universities’ and wait to see if they are accepted or not. Some attend For-Profit college’s and other’s go to Non-profit schools. But, what come’s with admission is tuition, that is a requirement to be paid each semester for a student. The price of tutu ion has risen excessively throughout history. What happened to the cost of education

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    Essay On Free College

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    Free college won’t ever work in America and never will work. In theory, free college in America sounds great but in actual practice, it could never work. People who think free college in America will work feel like they’re entitled to be given free college and be given everything in life. These people believe the government should do everything for them. I don’t know about everybody else but to get anywhere in life I was taught that you got to work hard to get somewhere in life. People who do believe

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    Community College: Already Free for Those in Need If you were to ask the seniors in my class what their plans are after high school, a majority of them will tell you college. Some will attend UCs, others CSUs, and some will attend community college.Some attend community college because their legal status hinders them to attend a four year university right away, but at community colleges that is not the case. As an AB540 student living in California, going to college is already an obstacle that has

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