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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it really posh dorms or is it wraparound services, bulging administrators, or perhaps outrageous comp pkgs for Pres and coaches?  Seriously, what are the root causes of ballooning higher ed costs?[/quote]

Imagine for the sake of discussion we are talking about educating an undergraduate history major, 50 years ago and today.

50 years ago you would need some lecture halls and classrooms, a library, books, housing, food, and of course some professors.

Which of these things have appreciated faster than inflation year after year like clockwork?  Certainly it isn't professors, they aren't making bank.  The classrooms and lecture halls are in many cases the exact same rooms used 50 years ago...

What has gone nuts is the administrative bloat. Huge numbers of non-teaching staff, deans, etc.  Facilities are the other major offender.  A dorm 50 years ago would be positively spartan compared to dorms of today.  Gyms, and other amenities of other types also contribute.

Fundamentally, university presidents have completely abandoned their core mandate (at least for state schools) to educate the populace without leaving them with a crushing debt load.

[img]https://dzhhw2kso6jlo.cloudfront.net/chart-images/v1/college-of-william-and-mary/paying-for-college/tuition-and-fees/chart-tuition-and-fees-trend_xl.png[/img]

There is no reason a school can't provide a quality education on a reasonable budget.  Purdue is proving this to be the case.  Most of them just don't want to badly enough to trade away growing administrative bloat and new pet projects.

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