Is administrative bloat driving up college costs?
Several weeks ago, I wrote a story titled “Shut Out: How the Cost of Higher Education is Dividing Our Country” for Tomdispatch.com that the cost of higher education has increased more than five times faster than the median income in the past 30 years. In that story, I asked, “How did college, once seen as an increasingly democratic path to advancement, become so expensive?” I wrote that a combination of declining state appropriations, more financial aid to students... Read More
