Read the passage from "Making College More
What is the author's most likely reason for writing the
Affordable: What Needs Discussing is the Total Cost of a commentary in this passage?
Degree."
-to encourage universities to lighten the classwork
Sixty-two percent of these students work an average of
required to graduate
22 hours a week, usually at minimum wage jobs, so they
can't take a full credit load. It is impossible to graduate in
-to suggest that a college degree should not take four
four years. They drop classes more frequently than
years to complete
other students and tend to have lower grades because of
-to highlight the challenges that students face beyond
their work load. Sadly, they also don't have time to
the cost of tuition
participate in advantageous activities, such as research
-to promote the idea of a free college education for
or internships. They get discouraged. They either give up students who work hard
or end up attending a fifth or sixth year at a significant
cost. If they graduate, they have paid more and gotten
less from the experience than other students.
Our universities need a laser-like focus on mitigating all
factors that slow the time to the completion of a degree.
Every student should have access to financial literacy