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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in this industry too. My guess is $100k/year, which will be 2-3x the rate of inflation over the period.

[b]Sadly, most of the new spending goes on items not directly related to education, like new stadiums and student centers.[/b] Tour any college campus, and you can pretty much guarantee you'll find at least one new building/renovation project in progress. It never stops. [/quote]

Yes, here is the reason that college costs so much now:

http://www.bestcollegereviews.org/features/the-25-most-amazing-campus-student-recreation-centers/

Somehow we managed to educate Nobel prize-winning scientists and great American novelists and everything in between at US universities for a century or two without lazy rivers in the student centers and luxury all-suite dorms with maid service. All the increases in tuition are NOT going to better education, since universities have cut tenure-track faculty and increased TAs and adjuncts while they've been on building sprees. The student center list above includes public, private, top-ranked, and lower-tier. The whole system is an awful mess.[/quote]

Say what?!?! The lazy river is just insane.  There's no way you can justify that.  They can't even pretend that's for student fitness.  I went to an Ivy in the 90s and we were perfectly happy without any fancy "sports" facilities.  We liked our musty, old looking buildings.  [/quote]

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