tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post624366700663411174..comments2024-03-28T14:59:42.168-04:00Comments on Kresta In The Afternoon: Michigan's public universities see 24% increase in 'unrestricted' net assetsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post-45535988071579502072012-01-16T23:31:26.150-05:002012-01-16T23:31:26.150-05:00The reason college tuition grows higher, even as w...The reason college tuition grows higher, even as wages fall, is because there are government grants, scholarships and loans which guarentee that the tuition will continue to be paid. If education was unmoored from artificial means of funding, colleges would have no choice but to lower prices in order to encourage enrollment.<br /><br />An added bonus would be that the value of the college education would rise and the artificial requirement of "a degree" for many jobs which neither require them nor use them, would have to decline.<br /><br />Like it or not, ever spiraling tuition costs are directly related to the ideal that everyone ought to have a college education. The fact the very goal makes itself unreachable by its own implementation is ironically lost on those who articulate it.Freddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15327967572320999217noreply@blogger.com