Meanwhile, states have pulled back or failed to increase university funding, and the universities fill the gap with greater tuition. Here's the story+graph for

Meanwhile, states have pulled back or failed to increase university funding, and the universities fill the gap with greater tuition. Here's the story+graph for the University of California system: https://accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/chapt https://accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/chapt... This is the GP's point, and completely spot on. If this is the primary factor we should expect student debt load for private school graduates to have grown much more slowly than for public school graduates, right? It may be that the increasing admin staff has taken advantage of this situation more ruthlessly than good communist professor admins would have, Why are we giving non profit tax benefits to profit maximizers?