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"Now Let's Make College Free"

Posted by Campaign for Free College Tuition on October 11, 2022 at 10:14 AM

This recent opinion piece in Newsweek by Denisa Gándara, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at UT Austin, sums up CFCT’s position on the recent decision to forgive college debt by President Biden, and its relationship to free college tuition.

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Spring Brings Green Shoots of Promise in New England

Posted by Morley Winograd on June 29, 2022 at 9:59 AM

Earlier this year, Maine Governor Mill’s program to provide high school students impacted by the pandemic with free college tuition passed the legislature, turning the most north-eastern state in the country a nice shade of green.

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Keep It Simple, Make It Free

Posted by Morley Winograd on April 29, 2022 at 10:01 AM

These six words provide a blueprint for what public colleges can do to reverse the dangerous declines in enrollment they have experienced since Covid became part of our world. Both newly released research and the experience of states that have based their programs on those research findings demonstrates the power of tuition free college to attract students who want to increase their chances for future economic success. What’s more, such programs have generated bipartisan support that has helped thirty states adopt some form of free college, filling our Momentum Map with unprecedented levels of green.

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Governor Lujan Grisham to Co-Chair Advisory Council for the Campaign for Free College Tuition

Posted by Campaign for Free College Tuition on June 10, 2021 at 9:22 AM

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June 10, 2021

Governor Lujan Grisham to co-chair Advisory Council for the Campaign for Free College Tuition

National coalition seeks to make public colleges tuition-free  
 

WASHINGTON, D.C. & SANTA FE, NM – The Campaign for Free College Tuition (CFCT) has announced that New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham will co-chair the organization’s advisory council, a group of national leaders that seeks to make tuition-free public college a reality for students in the United States.

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Free College Tuition Generates Bipartisan Support (in Michigan & Beyond)

Posted by Doug Ross on June 07, 2021 at 7:35 AM

According to a recent Monmouth University poll, 71% of Americans want Democrats and Republicans to work together in Congress. But is it really possible in a nation and state whose politics and people are so polarized?

Michigan just announced that 70,000 residents applied for tuition-free community college in less than four months under Michigan Reconnect, a program offering free community college tuition to any resident 25 or older without a college degree. 

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Tuition-Free College Update as States Rebound from COVID-19

Posted by Campaign for Free College Tuition on April 14, 2021 at 8:11 AM

As state economies rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic, we are pleased to report that there has been considerable recent activity to enact or expand state programs that make public colleges tuition-free. The programs detailed below, in most instances, enjoyed bipartisan support and were the product of strong gubernatorial leadership.

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Demonstrating the Demand for Free College Tuition

Posted by Douglas Ross on February 19, 2021 at 11:40 AM

As one of the founders of the Campaign for Free College Tuition in 2013, I argued strongly that historical inevitability and economic necessity were reasons enough to engage in what at the time seemed like a long-shot cause. But along with the other founders, I knew that whenever the American economy had undergone fundamental change, the nation had responded by expanding and refashioning the public education system to meet the new demands of the workplace.

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We can't do this alone!

Our goal is to make higher education a possibility for every American, without regard to their financial circumstances.

We have a lot to do and not much time to do it, so your support is critical for our campaign to succeed. It’s with your investment that we can fundamentally reform how higher education is financed in this country, opening the doors to a more equitable society.

If you agree with our goal, our plan, and the urgency of the problem, we ask that you give what you can to help us write the next chapter in our nation’s history of continuously expanding access to universal, free education.

The Campaign for Free College Tuition is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization established in the State of Washington in 2014 to educate parents, students, the higher education community, policy makers and taxpayers about efforts needed to fundamentally reform our nation’s system for financing higher education. This website and CFCT’s educational outreach activities are made possible through generous individual and foundation support.

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