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You're missing the point. Tuition increases have outpaced inflation. The portion of college tuition that is privately funded vs. publicly funded has increased
by pinko 17y ago
You're missing the point. Tuition increases have outpaced inflation. The portion of college tuition that is privately funded vs. publicly funded has increased considerably.
The author of the paper you link acknowledges this but justifies it by reasoning, "Most college and university expense is to pay well-educated people, whose incomes in the general economy have grown quite a bit faster than the CPI".
If you accept the premise that higher education isn't really meant for working-class people, then there's no problem. Bully for you.
- yequalsx 17y agoThe reason for the increase in tuition over inflation is because of the decrease in funding per student by the government. The gap that tuition is trying to overcome is twofold. It seeks to overcome inflationary adjustments and adjustments to the decrease in funding per student. Higher education should not be free but should not be an undue burden on students. It's in society's long term interest to make higher education affordable. Your last paragraph is not justified by anything that I have written.
- pinko 17y agoYes, yequalsx, I agree with you completely! Check the thread lineage -- I was responding to bokonist's comment, not yours. (Admittedly snarkily, but that kind of revisionist crap annoys me.)