The blame game over rising college costs
No-Brainer
by David L. Kirp. The Nation, October 23, 2003.
“The blame game” is what is what the Chronicle of Higher Education calls it:
With the Higher Education Act up for renewal next year, the
White House is expected to join those who blame colleges and
universities for “making higher education unaffordable to
students from low- and middle-income families, as well as for
allowing too many students to drop out,” says David L. Kirp, a
professor of public policy at the University of California at
Berkeley.But the recent rise in college tuition is primarily the result
of drops in state support for higher education, Mr. Kirp says.
Nevertheless, in a proposal to amend the Higher Education Act,
“Republicans are telling these cash-starved institutions to hold
the line on tuition or lose millions of dollars in federal
grants and loans,” he writes.
(from
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