While Bernie Sanders has been attracting considerable support on campuses, few college presidents have been speaking out on behalf of his plan to make public higher education free. And although college association leaders have applauded Sanders and Hillary Clinton for highlighting public concerns about college affordability, they have been tepid in endorsing the specifics of the plans.
But a Gallup/Inside Higher Ed poll of college and university presidents has found that half of college presidents back or partly back an early version of Senator Sanders’s plan that would provide $18 billion to states to pay for two free years of public higher education (at both two- and four-year institutions). The poll was conducted in early summer, before further details of the Sanders plan made it more generous to states and institutions, and before the release of Clinton’s higher education plan, which would provide double the funding that Sanders had proposed at the time, including some funds for private colleges.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/08/survey-finds-support-college-presidents-free-tuition-plans
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