Many people are rightly focused on doing something about the scourge of student debt that is impacting the ability of an entire generation to get on with their lives. We at the Campaign for Free College Tuition commend those efforts, even as we focus on finding a permanent solution to the problem so no future generation ever has to be burdened by debt.
Read moreJoin us in saying Congratulations to Say Yes Education on their newest partner community, Guilford County (NC)! With this exciting announcement, Say Yes to Education has successfully launched three community-wide Chapters by bringing together diverse groups of corporate, non-profit, and philanthropic organizations in their respective communities. Guilford County joins as the biggest partner yet with a 72,000 student school-system, bigger than that of San Francisco or Boston.
Read moreOur cause is gaining momentum: the free college tuition movement has taken the media by storm!
Just this past week Hilary Clinton unveiled her much anticipated plan for reforming how we pay for college.[1] A Democratic front runner, Clinton’s proposal uses Federal incentives to get states to reinvest into higher education. And Bernie Sanders has been able to keep a constant presence in the media, always touting free college education as one of his central platforms.
Read moreRichard Reeves, senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institute, recently took time out of his studies on economic mobility to pen an editorial lambasting the Kalamazoo Promise because “free college doesn’t fix everything.” His commentary was so wrong and uninformed that Bob Jorth, Executive Director of the Kalamazoo Promise felt compelled to respond. His response unfortunately didn’t get the same coverage, but it was so well done that we felt all of our followers who might have been equally outraged by the Reeves hit piece should have a chance to read it in full. All we can say is, Bob, thanks for putting the record straight and Mr. Reeves in his place.
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The Campaign for Free College Tuition hosted a conference call with the United States Under Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell and our President Morley Winograd to talk about President Obama’s proposal, “Americas College Promise”, to make Community College free throughout the country and CFCT’s 4-step plan for free college.
Ted Mitchell and Morley Winograd answered questions from members and listeners. They addressed a variety of concerns and issues including how to deal with a surge in enrollment, enforcement of the legislation, funding of the promise, bi-partisanship, support for HBCU’s and MSI’s, completion rates, worker training programs, universal access to education, and more.
Listen now to this exclusive call and leave us feedback if you have questions that weren’t answered!
Dear Friends,
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Over the past few months we have had thousands of activists advocating for free college tuition.
Read moreThe 2016 Presidential Election looms in the distance like a rising sun ascending over a wide desert horizon. It creeps slowly into mainstream conversation as the country looks to new leadership for the nation’s various ills and maladies.
Read moreRecently, I had a discussion about language that I preferred to use to describe the response to Freddie Gray’s death in Baltimore, Maryland. His death, and countless others across the country, had sparked a popular uprising. During the movement, I noticed on Twitter that the hashtags #BaltimoreRising and #BaltimoreUprising were being used by a lot of folks sympathetic to the cause.
I insisted that these were more appropriate than using the term “riot,” but someone quickly chastised me, and said,“This whole movement has been about defying shame. I’m happy to reclaim ‘riot’ rather than distance/euphemise [sic].”
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.
