The article contains a chart, ostensibly to support its claim, but I don't see how it supports the claim. The chart shows that tuition inflation was already ma

The article contains a chart, ostensibly to support its claim, but I don't see how it supports the claim. The chart shows that tuition inflation was already massively outpacing overall inflation in the '80s. The trend seems to accelerate a little bit in '93, but there's a much more pronounced acceleration in the early 2000's. So whatever the underlying reason is for tuition growing much faster than inflation, that reason must have been present in the '80s already, and the greatest acceleration of that process happened about ten years after the event that the article claims is the cause of all of it.