Against college for all: the AFT president
Bryan Alexander,
May 07, 2025
Bryan Alexander writes about the "shattering" of the "bipartisan consensus" that everybody should go to "college". I use the quotes because this debate has a uniquely American framing that not only posits giving up on the idea of universality, but is also where a "movement among business, state, and city leaders asks us to tear up the paper ceiling, opening up jobs to people without postsecondary degrees." The factors limiting access to education in the U.S. - lack of social mobility, socio-economic status, excessive tuition fees - have in part led to a deep social divide. Ending access for all entails creating other avenues for social mobility in a society that can't imagine any. After all, if the prohibitively expensive private higher education system can't offer exclusivity and elitism, what can it offer?
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