Five Truths About Tuition
Christopher Shea,
New York Times,
Nov 14, 2003
Good discussion (though at times irritating) on the rising cost of tuition in American universities. The pattern is familiar: states cut the buget for universities (actually, they slow down the rate of increase), universities make up some of the shortfall through tuition. Tuition increases in turn create pressure on state grant and loan programs for lower income students, and it is these students who are increasingly unable to afford an education. The article ends, ominously, with the warning that dramatic change may be coming sooner rather than later.
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