When discussing how to achieve your American dream, many factors come into play. However, no factor is more important than education. Education often determines your likelihood of achieving your American Dream. Higher education, in particular, is now more than ever considered a determining factor in increasing the chances of achieving the American dream. A college education should give every American an equal opportunity to achieve their American dream. However, this claim is now disputed. Cornell University government professor Suzanne Mettler says higher education in America isn't what it used to be and has now put Americans on an unequal playing field. Mettler argues in his New York Times article “College, The Great Unleveler” that higher education has created unequal opportunities for social and economic mobility and credits the absence of government support as a major cause. While I agree with Mettler's assertion that college is hindering social mobility and that the government has failed to maintain education policies, I disagree with her that higher education is become a caste system. “College, the great non-leveller,” is Suzanne Mettler's message to policy makers that the university has deviated from its original purpose of providing all with an equal chance to achieve social and economic mobility. In fact, college education has transformed into the exact opposite. He cites factors such as government neglect of education policies and unregulated for-profit education, which is why higher education is no longer leveled. Furthermore, he believes that higher education has now become a place where only the rich can attend the best (private) schools and the poorest students get…half the paper…on college athletics, the focus would focus on making their schools more accessible to all students. Just like in the NCAA, schools will be divided into conferences. For example, Ivy League schools would have their own conference, and elite STEM schools would have theirs as well. As part of the conferences, schools are free to negotiate average tuition prices, financial aid options for students and other interests. However, the conferences will be governed by a board of directors where the presidents of each conference will sit on a council with a president chosen from among them. With a system like this in place, my hope is that it promotes economic diversity in higher education so that every student can attend and afford college so they can have the opportunity for social and economic mobility and equal opportunity in higher education.