Sen. Marco Rubio, the candidate of the “future,” is making yet another play for Millennial voters —this time with a focus on higher education reform.
During one of his first campaign stops in New Hampshire, Rubio called for massive higher education reform and a need for a shift in attitudes about what constitutes education.
Rubio told an audience at a community college that he believes in an approach that mixes vocational training, online courses, community college classes and traditional “brick and mortar” credits, according to the New York Times.
“We have only one way of providing higher education in America, and that is, we tell everybody, ‘You either go to a traditional college or you go nowhere,’ ” he said. “That isn’t working.”
It isn’t working, he said, because of the “crippling” student debt loads — a powerful message for students when the nation’s debt load has topped $1.1 trillion.
“That’s something I’m very sensitive to, because I actually owed over $100,000 after I finished my education,” he said. “And I never would have paid it off had it not been for a book I wrote.”
