And probably all public universities and colleges, at least for two years. After that, the tuition needs to be something reasonable.
I first started college in 1965. I had the good fortune to have two scholarships to my local state university. The specific dollar amounts don't matter, mainly because they'd be unfathomable today, but one was a dollar amount that covered my tuition and fees, the other was a dollar amount that paid for my textbooks.
Some years later I was trying to tell my son that back when I first went to college, a summer job at minimum wage, if you lived at home and saved most of that money, was enough to cover tuition and fees, at least in one of the lower cost states. Some forty years later he could not imagine that.
The essential problem is that in the past fifty years states have systematically defunded their colleges and universities, passing more and more of the costs to the students. That's unconscionable. I don't give a flying fuck if I don't have a kid attending a state university in the state where I currently live. I benefit in the long run from a well educated younger generation. Go ahead and raise my taxes. It will be well worth it in the long run.
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