Perhaps, but co-mingling a perceived problem at Harvard (high nameplate tuition that few students actually pay) with an actual problem at public universities (d

Perhaps, but co-mingling a perceived problem at Harvard (high nameplate tuition that few students actually pay) with an actual problem at public universities (disinvestment in higher education by state legislatures causing tuition increases) doesn't help the debate at all, it just muddies the waters. Even this article doesn't actually address the issue directly; it complains about excessive administrators, then tries to support that complaint with tuition data. Tuition is not the primary funding source of university administrators. Federal research dollars pay for a significant fraction (if not a majority) of them. The data that the author should be leveraging is expenditure data, not income data. This is the best aggregate dataset I have on university expenditures, showing a modest increase in spending on a per-student basis: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_334.10.asp https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_334.10.a...