If higher education in the United States was as covered by our taxes as primary school education is, then we would have far fewer of these issues.
In my opinion, a country this sophisticated can easily afford to arrange so that any of its citizens should be able to attend any university which has the room and into which they can qualify academically. This is the PRIMARY way a person can better themselves and better their community. It's not just "job training" it's personal intellectual development. THIS is the great equalizer that the United States could actually brag about internationally. And just imagine what a country this big, with this size of a pool of raw untapped talent, could do, when unfettered and allowed to just learn anything they could want to learn.
The only folks who could possibly object to that are predatory lending organizations and I think that we as a country would be a thousand percent better off if we told those organizations to roll themselves into a tight-little ball the size of my fist and drop themselves into a volcano.
If this happened, then no one could complain about tuition prices, no one could complain about being saddled by debt, no one could complain about anything other than "gosh, I hate it when Americans are educated" and for those folks,(we know who they are), fuck 'em.
I 100% support free education for any and all citizens, paid for by taxes and giving everyone the satisfaction of knowing that the people around them are getting what they want out of life and not just being raised as fucking wage slaves.