15  Like Death and Taxes: Tuition Survives

 

Sources

What Causes High Tuition? Don’t Trust Your Intuition (Wall Street Journal)

State Funding Cuts Matter (Inside Higher Ed)

In Reversal, Colleges Rein in Tuition (Wall Street Journal)

This Is the Way the College “Bubble” Ends (The Atlantic)

Affordable, but Not Free (Inside Higher Ed)

Rhode Island Becomes Fourth State to Offer Free Community College (Wall Street Journal)

If Higher Education Were a Public Good… (Forbes)

 

Further Reading

The Dustman and the Doctor: Fairness and the Student Fees Debate (New Statesman)

CUNY/SUNY Scholarship Program Spurs Caution, Optimism at Panel (Education Dive)New State Aid, With Strings Attached (Inside Higher Ed)

A Fast Start? (Inside Higher Ed)

The Disinvestment Hypothesis: Don’t Blame State Budget Cuts for Rising Tuition at Public Universities (Brookings)

Private Colleges See Record Discounting Amid Pressure From Cost-Conscious Families

(Wall Street Journal)

Colleges Say They Could Lower Tuition—If Only They Could Talk To Each Other About It

(Washington Post)

How One University Makes Transparent Pricing Work (Chronicle of Higher Education)

11 Research Universities Start Aid Initiative (Inside Higher Ed)

Revenue: What Higher Ed Leaders Need to Know (Education Dive)

New Venture Will Offer Free Courses That Students Can Take for College Credit

(Chronicle of Higher Education)

Free Community College Tuition? The Idea is Spreading Across Southern California (Press-Enterprise)

Tuition-Free Community College to Become the Norm in Tennessee (USA Today)

The First State to Offer Free Community College to Nearly Every Adult (NPR)

Pennies on the Dollar: The Surprisingly Weak Relationship Between State Subsidies and College Tuition (American Enterprise Institute)