The status quo system of higher education in the country is diseased. Requiring institutions to compete with each other in order to enroll students to capture their tuition dollars is fundamentally destructive. wsj.com/articles/biden…
Four-year schools lobby against free community college because it may hurt 4-yr schools' revenue. This is rotten stuff, but it's primarily a problem of a system that makes chasing revenue paramount. 
Carol Christ, current chancellor of Cal-Berkeley put it plainly: "Colleges and universities are fundamentally in the business of enrolling students for tuition dollars." This is an operations mindset and it dominates higher ed because under the current structure, it has to.
Our current system literally doesn't make any sense. It is ass-backwards if the mission is to provide access to opportunity. Killing the Biden free-CC plan will make sure that nothing fundamental changes. insidehighered.com/blogs/just-vis…
I got a whole book that reimagines what public higher ed could be if it could move away from a chase for revenue and towards a mission-orientation. It isn't hard to imagine at all, but there's lots of powerful forces in the way. beltpublishing.com/products/susta…
I dearly wish that public higher ed institutions would do the "right" thing on issues like adjunct labor, student loans, racial equity (for both students and faculty), and all kinds of other things, but until the incentives change, those right things won't happen.
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