UM: Cost of College

Mother Jones runs an essay by UM undergraduate Andy Kroll, looking at how the rising cost of higher education is creating an inequality of access: “The longer this crisis continues, the more our four-year public and private colleges are likely to be transformed into ‘gated communities of higher education’ (in the phrase of Richard Vedder, director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity) and engines of inequality. Meanwhile, for those priced out of the four-year college market, the job of education will be left to public community colleges with fast growing student bodies, the least funding, and the fewest class offerings, as well as overcrowded classrooms and faculties stretched to the breaking point.” [Source]