This is a crisis that has been long in the making, as colleges and universities invariably respond to any business problem (rising expenses, declining enrollments, losing football teams) with tuition increases. The crisis, of course, will appear to arise 'out of the blue' to university administrations when a measure much like the one described in this article inevitably comes to pass. "Talk is cheap and legislation has been toothless. A 25 percent increase in tuition and fees is not reasonable, it is scandalous. And we can no longer sit idly by and accept such increases as the natural course of things." Eventually, lawmakers will discover the magic formula: remove the institutions' monopoly over the granting of credentials.
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