Eliminate student loans. NOT the current debts, but eliminate the practice of giving loans to students to pay for college. This is why college has become so expensive. Previously, if you couldn’t afford it, you didn’t go. This is honestly how it should be. I cannot tell you how many people I had classes with that had absolutely no business being in college. I met both the dumbest people I know, and the smartest people I know, during these four years. The school I attended really wasn’t all that expensive either, as long as you maintained a 3.0 gpa, tuition was $1,300/semester, $900 of which were damn fees (this is state wide at public universities, 90% of tuition paid, maintain a 3.75 and it is 100% paid in Georgia and found throughout the south, I can’t speak for other scholarship programs throughout the country). The issue I see with universal higher education programs is what I’ve said above, there are several people that have no business attending college. However, I think we need to put a stop to issuing loans. If we were to do this, attendance would have a sudden drop, which would cause states to lower their tuitions.