260%. That is how much the college tuition costs have increased by since 1980. And it’s still going up, meanwhile all of the things such as consumer items have only gone up 120%. Not only is tuition something that students must stress and worry about, but supplies, textbooks, and other things all add to this inflating cost. While the costs of colleges are skyrocketing higher and higher, the salaries aren’t going up with it. Our current college system in California and many other states is not working as well as it should be, and we should be acting on this now with the many solutions available. Free college is a stretch and will probably not be possible as imagined, but the idea of lowering college tuitions to more affordable levels is much more plausible. As years keep going by, competition in schools and the job market are steadily increasing, making college even more important than it was years ago. Times are changing, and as a college degree wasn’t an important factor in becoming successful 30 years ago, now it is as important as ever. However, if the prices keep progressing upwards, the amount of people who can’t afford to go to college is going to keep going up with it. States benefit from having a more educated population, but the minorities of people who can’t afford college are …show more content…
Since 1986, Michigan has shown the way of paying college fees in advance. If parents plan on their children going to college then they could pay whenever they wanted to for the current prices instead of waiting for their children to be able to go to college. Once their kids are ready to go to college, everything that was paid for will be worth that current day’s price, no matter how much the expenses may have