It's TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. Fewer than 10% of people around the world have a bachelor's degree. One of the reasons, it costs too much to get into and pay for college. It has talked from Ted Monterey in 2021. Higher Education Executive Adrian Hoguebrook makes a case for breaking down the barriers to educational entry.

He shares his vision for lowering the cost of college by rethinking time, place, and how we learn.

My father grew up in the Deep South in the 1940s and 50s at a time when schools were still segregated,

and the promise of going to college was less a promise and more like a game of roulette.

And so for many like him, the only real choices they had were to stay in their hometown,

going to the military, or to attempt to go to college.

Well, my father served 20 years proudly and honorably in the United States Air Force.

The barriers to college were just too high.

When he retired from the military, he did go back to college and using his GI Bill

and studying at night for almost six years, he did go back to college and using his GI Bill and studying at night

for almost six years, he graduated one year before I was graduating from college. I remember

going to his commencement and watching him walk across the stage and my eyes just filled with tears.

And I actually, I'm not sure that I saw him get his diploma

because I was crying like a baby.

You know, around the world, less than 7% of people own a bachelor's degree.

But there are many who would like to go to university.

But for them, much like my father,

the barriers to getting into and graduated from college

are just too high.

It simply costs too much.

And that cost is often the price of tuition.

In the United States, a four-year bachelor's degree can cost in excess of $100,000, and that price point continues to escalate.

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