Area-Wide Tuition-Free Equivalency College

The cost of a college education is about $2,000 per student, when the extras are stripped out, such as the library, food service, dormitories, Chancellor's housing, gym, parking lot, etc. A stripped down college, as I see it, would be office space, 30 chairs in a room, a blackboard, instructor and a curriculum.

$2,000 per year in tuition is not very much, and it could be raised by the town's Town Attorney General, to enable residents of the town to attend. Even without a subsidy from the town, $2,000 per year is less than one package of cigarettes per day.

The curriculum would be multi-disciplinary, and designed to enable residents of the town to become self employed, as small businesspersons, and to be more effective employees for area businesses. Farming, manufacturing and manufacturing renewable energy would be important fields of study, as would website construction, pay-per-click advertising, search engine optimization and landing pages, just to name several of the more obvious areas of study.

By increasing the average level of education among residents of the area, the residents and area will be able to become far more competitive in the state, national and worldwide marketplace, and enable the residents and their town, village or area to achieve prosperity while other areas are failing to achieve what is obviously possible.

I have written about this idea and refer you to such writing for further information. There is no need to sell insurance to fund the equivalency college. A local town attorney general could do this by suing companies which have injured the town, such as by taking subsidies and then pulling out without paying back an appropriate part of the subsidy. See my website at http://election-issues-us.com/equivalency.php

Carl E. Person
Candidate for NYS Attorney General - 2010