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[quote=Anonymous]Since college costs have risen so much, I wonder if there's a way to elevate the resistance to this. I see people express concern and see a #collegecosts hash tag, but I don't see much action from colleges. I wonder if there's more of a grassroots effort on this issue than I'm just not aware of and could become involved in. 
Not all colleges can lower their costs, but a lot can. In fact, the Ivys could afford to stop charging tuition entirely if they wanted. If they stopped raising their sticker prices by 3.5-5% per year, that might put pressure on other schools to be reasonable in their charges. It seems as if there isn't a lot of variation in the sticker prices for highly selective colleges. 
Those top-ranked schools (many of which have endowments of more than $1 million per student) also can afford to boost financial aid more, which perhaps might influence other colleges.
Trying to talk to members of college boards of trustees and college presidents might be worth a try (again, for those colleges that realistically could afford to lower costs). What else could be done that's not being done now? Why are students on campuses across the country not holding protests every day about the crazy-high costs they're being saddled with? [/quote]

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