I wonder what role the diminished state of funding has had on increased college costs. In the 90s, the money from DARPA/ONR and even NSF flowed quite readily in

I wonder what role the diminished state of funding has had on increased college costs. In the 90s, the money from DARPA/ONR and even NSF flowed quite readily into schools, which take 50-55% of that as "overhead" costs. Now, military research funding is more commercially targeted, and the combination of competition and shrinking funding for the NSF has turned it into a dogfight over scraps (at least so it seems in CS).