Can Tuition-Free College Change a Community? | Nash McQuarters

Can Tuition-Free College Change a Community? | Nash McQuarters | TEDxTulsaCC

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7 жыл бұрын

Can tuition-free college have far-reaching positive impact on a community? Discover how median income and other metrics changed for the better when Tulsa Community College implemented Tulsa Achieves, a program that removes economic barriers to higher education.
Nash McQuarters is a well-known face in local Tulsa high schools as the Senior Admission Counselor at Tulsa Community College. Over the last five years, he has promoted TCC's free college tuition program, Tulsa Achieves, to thousands of high school students. He is a Tulsa Native and a graduate of Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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@nashwayne2114 5 жыл бұрын

UPDATE: Jacquline finished her Associate degree Spring 2019 and is now attending a local university. William took a small break and joined the military. He is now back and will finish his Associate degree Fall 2019.

@billdaniel178 5 жыл бұрын

Money spent on education is never money wasted. Keep up the good fight, Mr. McQuarters.

@ericjohnson4877 5 жыл бұрын

I disagree with that. You can get a quality education in shanty with a dirt floor in a third world country if you have discipline, motivation, and good teachers. You can also throw endless amounts of dollars at students for tablets and calculators and textbooks that are very obviously unnecessarily overpriced at the level of being extortion and those students can still require college to compete with foreign grade schoolers. Money does not create knowledge. Learning creates knowledge. And I'd even argue that having less and having to innovate and solve problems is more conducive to learning than having everything handed to you. I think before we start asking the citizenry to fork over more money to pay for all these outrageous tuition, room and board, and textbook costs, we should fix the existing tax funded education system that is churning out uneducated, indoctrinated people with short attention spans and very little critical thinking and problem solving ability.

@serum2685 5 жыл бұрын

Job corps is not the only one huh?

@stayswervin554 Жыл бұрын

most of education money is wasted money

@galek75 Жыл бұрын

@@ericjohnson4877 Wrong. Education is absolutely dependent on money. It's like you have no knowledge of history.

@raechellereed3171 7 жыл бұрын

You are amazing! I'm so proud of you and the work that you are doing!

@danielgouge4639 Жыл бұрын

Yes! Yes! Yes! I believe that college and trade school both should be free. The trucking company that I began my driving career with, trained me for free. I just signed to work for them for a year and completed my contract. I served my country in the transportation industry for over 23 years thereafter. Let people gain the job skills and education to better themselves. Education should be a free human right.

@qman5788 5 жыл бұрын

I love Nash. I was in a show with this guy. He’s amazing.

@thaisymone 4 жыл бұрын

Great!!! Wonderful much needed topic.

@ashantiyaaasantewaa9368 5 жыл бұрын

You ARE an Amazing speaker...Wow!

@ashantiyaaasantewaa9368 5 жыл бұрын

Love you Nash! ❤👌🏾

@nomadic8000 6 жыл бұрын

I am not surprised that this didn't get more likes, views, and comments.

@goldanimal3931 3 жыл бұрын

I stopped attending honours college because of money issues

@franklsuarez 4 жыл бұрын

If college was free, I'd get a doctorate.

@thefenerbahcesk4156 Жыл бұрын

A lot of PhD programs are actually tuition free - at least in the biological sciences.

@Scorch1028 5 жыл бұрын

One of the reasons that college is so expensive is because those who run most colleges have no desire whatsoever to “save their students money” by streamlining their degree programs. College officials need to ‘cut out’ unnecessary degree programs, or at least make the ‘least valuable college degrees’ cost a small fraction of what the most valuable degrees cost. A degree in Art History should cost a student no more than ‘one-fourth’ of what a degree in Aeronautical Engineering costs. Why? Because there is greater demand in the ‘occupational marketplace’ for Aeronical engineers (and those in STEM fields in general) than there is for Art History majors. Like it or not, some forms of ‘competency and aptitude’ are considered to be more valuable than others, at least where pay is concerned. Artsy dreamers and people employed in the soft sciences are great, but with these kinds of talents are also “a dime a dozen.” I’m not saying that dreamers don’t deserve access to higher education, but rather that their courses and degree programs should ‘cost significantly less’ as a measure of how relatively ‘less valuable’ these degrees are to today’s employers. Sadly, I don’t expect America’s “profit-driven” colleges and universities to be on board with my idea of ‘fairly’ pricing the courses and degrees they offer their students. Such a measure would undoubtedly cause many ‘soft science’ and ‘artsy-course’ professors to go on strike, or leave the profession all together for ‘higher pay’ - if they could find it.

@billdaniel178 5 жыл бұрын

So, should the cost of an Aeronautical Engineering degree drop if there are too many people with Aeronautical Engineering degrees and not enough work for them?

@insanesioux9656 4 жыл бұрын

I’m glad I’m a Native American and the collage I’m going to is free tuition for natives, and the professors want natives to graduate, so they will help you when needed

@goldanimal3931 3 жыл бұрын

Ofcourse. For the better

@ericeandco 4 жыл бұрын

Yes. More people thinking they should be handed everything because their so special. How about solving the problems we still have in our “free” public schools before we destroy the quality of our colleges by heaping them into the same mess.

@juliand.l.4310 5 жыл бұрын

Diversity is not a strength, Unity is our strength.

@beldean4568 4 жыл бұрын

Julian Dl when you are able to create unity out of diversity, that is our strength.

@gretchencemborski1872 2 жыл бұрын

Diversity means including people even if they don't look, think, or love the way you do. Including more people IS creating unity, where exclusionary practices work to divide. I'm not sure how diversity became a bad thing.

@tylerharris4392 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a hardcore american

@denisehorn8780 5 жыл бұрын

It sounds great, but isn't everyone supposed to be part of diversity? Why is it that only certain groups of people deserve an education? Aren't we ALL AMERICANS? And if we are not, why are we on the spot for the fees?

@appleecho3498 3 жыл бұрын

Denise Horn I’m not an American- Do I not get free education?

@adamhellberg5894 2 жыл бұрын

@Youbetcha769 Жыл бұрын

If you live in the USA you can get free college, it is called serving in the military. You don’t even need to fight you can be a cook or some non combat job if you don’t want to fight. And boom after you serve and get out you get 100% free college for the rest of your life.

@AJ-ib4oy 10 ай бұрын

Most people who don’t go into the military probably don’t want to becomes property of a country that doesn’t care about you. Nor do they want to be bossed around by incompetent leaders.

@300zxster 5 жыл бұрын

this is all good, but can anyone tell me why tax payers in Tulsa have to pay for another's college education. In the example he gave out at the beginning of the talk about the two person expecting a new child and have to choose between college and starting new family.

@fugitiveHues 5 жыл бұрын

well you’re not just paying for your college education, you’re paying for yours as well if you wish to attend. The money generated by the community service part of TA’s program resulted in better academic results as the speaker showed, which in turn leads to better jobs, better income, happier people, and thus a better community. So why wouldn’t you want taxpayers paying for the college education of the people, themselves included?

@billdaniel178 5 жыл бұрын

Education, especially higher education, should be one of the main programs politician's invest taxpayer money into. The American government needs to quit wasting money in foreign countries with pointless conflicts like Vietnam and Operation Iraqi "Freedom" and start investing in educating America's workforce.

@tylerharris4392 2 жыл бұрын

@@billdaniel178 thank you

@AJ-ib4oy 10 ай бұрын

If a person earns more because they are educated, then they will pay more in taxes. Those extra taxes will pay for the cost of putting someone through school.

@michaelnathandavidson3000 4 жыл бұрын

Make community college free University still needs tuition Weed out the leeches

@gretchencemborski1872 2 жыл бұрын

I'm curious how you would define the leeches. Is it just anyone who cannot afford college on their own? Because that's everyone in poverty, and the whole point is to get people out of poverty, making more income, spending money in the community which then means income for other people, and paying taxes on their new, higher income.

@W81Researcher Жыл бұрын

@@gretchencemborski1872 people abuse financial aid.

@W81Researcher Жыл бұрын

They struggle in college.