Maybe I published Sutainable. Resilient. Free. too soon because the think tank crowd is finally catching up. I propose centering the funding of needs of regional publics and CC's as the key to a shared prosperous future. insidehighered.com/news/2021/07/2…
In Sustainable. Resilient. Free. I note what is obvious to those who have labored within them, regional institutions are employers, cultural centers, technology hubs, et al for residents near the institutions. beltpublishing.com/products/susta…
Making public higher ed tuition-free isn't just about making college affordable. It's about also brining resources to the institutions that serve the public, CC's and regional colleges/universities being at the top of the list.
I know it has become a joke/meme that everything is infrastructure, but when it comes to public higher ed, it happens to be true. beltpublishing.com/products/susta… 
The @insidehighered article is loaded with examples that show the role these regional institutions have in the community. insidehighered.com/news/2021/07/2…
As to where the $'s should come from to boost regional institutions, my recommendation is to end the public subsidies to ultra wealthy private institutions and just take that dough and give it to public institutions doing the work of the public. beltpublishing.com/products/susta…
.@ThirdWayTweet issued a report yesterday careful to make sure there were no "winners and losers" in their affordability plan, but in my view, we should go ahead and rebalance the historically unbalanced flow of resources to provide the public what they should've had all along.
Generations have been subject to a system that has disproportionately provide public money to wealthy private institutions that primarily serve wealthy students. Righting that wrong is justice served, not picking winners and losers.
A system that requires higher ed institutions to compete for resources via prestige has been very bad for the vast majority of Americans. We need to reset that system around the values we actually claim we want institutions to live by.
The institutions that have actually been walking the walk (CC's, non-selective publics) have been punished for fulfilling the needs of the broader public by not receiving nearly as much public money. I tweet this again. Look at the disparities.
The quality and value of the work of a post-secondary institution should not hinge on who they do (or don't) admit. Sustainable. Resilient. Free. provides a blueprint for rethinking a bad system and bringing it in line with what most desire. beltpublishing.com/products/susta…
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