With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them (report)

News release / Report

• The cost of textbooks and other fees besides tuition affected students financially:
  
  
  
  • 60% of students who did not graduate
  • 58% of students who did graduate
   
  
  
  
• How would the following help someone whose circumstances are similar to yours... in getting a college degree? Percent who say the following will help a lot:
  
  
  
  • Did not graduate: Cut the cost of attending college by 25 percent = 78%
  • Graduated: Cut the cost of attending college by 25 percent = 83%
  • Note: WA Community and Technical College tuition, for full-time students, is roughly $3000/year & textbooks are roughly $1000/year = 25 percent
  
  
  
  

• "Most young adults who started college but didn’t finish left because they needed to work more to make ends meet, according to a recent survey of more than 600 individuals aged 22 to 30 by Public Agenda."