What if community college were free?

Cost is just one of the burdens preventing students from pursuing higher education — but it's a pretty sizable one. While tuition prices are continuing to rise throughout most of the country there are a handful of states doing something radically different: making tuition at community colleges free.

Here's a list of Kerri Miller's guests for this week's Friday Roundtable:

• Brian Rosenberg, Macalester College president

• Tim Wynes, president of Inver Hills Community College

• Antoinette Flores, senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress

Use the audio player above to hear the full segment.

Correction (July 10, 2017): Macalester College was misspelled in an earlier version of this story.