Cost Of College Eclipses Inflation By 27 Percent in Last Five Years

[votesparks]

The price of attending a public four-year college has risen 27 percent beyond inflation over the past five years, according to the College Board. At Community Colleges, prices have risen 24 percent, and 13 percent at private universities.

The increases include to tuition have been driven by a drop in state funding for higher education, and things like skyrocketing growth in administrative positions, and the funding of athletic programs.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. As you suggest, so much of this is cost shifts.

I work at a community college and our budgets have contracted but tuition costs go up. Why? Because of the conservative drive to abandon the idea of a social contract, society picking up the cost of services which may only indirectly benefit everyone. They cut taxes then dump the expense on the students. Fuck the social contract, it's every man for himself. Meanwhile, we're tasked with providing more and more services to students who are disabled, at-risk, and undereducated by the feeder high schools.