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.
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