To add to this, Pew has an article that talks about a variety of topics including funding of higher education: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analys

To add to this, Pew has an article that talks about a variety of topics including funding of higher education: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2019/10/two-decades-of-change-in-federal-and-state-higher-education-funding https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-bri... If you look at Figure 4, within the last 10 years, and for the first time ever, the amount of federal money flowing into state universities exceeded state money. There are all sorts of consequences for this. Mostly, I mention this to echo that state contributions to higher education have gone down consistently and the editorial's assertion that the high cost of a university education can be reduced to a bloated administration is a simplified argument of a complex issue that is likely made in bad faith.