Given that about half of Vermont students already attend tuition free, I suspect someone crunched the numbers are realized this would only be a few people but the press would be fantastic.

The bigger problem is by continuing to freeze course fees without creating alternative revenue streams class outcomes are being directly harmed. Chemistry supplies haven’t gotten any cheaper, but the fee revenue has stayed flat, same for every other class supply. Endlessly increasing costs are bad, but just not teaching things because we can’t afford to buy the basics also isn’t great. There’s a lot of smoke and mirrors or ponzi-adjacent accounting happening here until the president can get a better job at a bigger school.