Problem is, in the 60s/70s/80s, you really could go get a humanities degree for the experience at a state flagship school, and you could reasonably pay for the

Problem is, in the 60s/70s/80s, you really could go get a humanities degree for the experience at a state flagship school, and you could reasonably pay for the whole thing with a part-time minimum wage job. At current prices, perhaps the job-training-investment view is the only reasonable one to take, but we'd like to know why the prices have risen so much and see if we can't knock them back down so that the experiential-rite-of-passage approach becomes not-insane again.