The Prestige Chase Is Raising College Costs
WITH ample reason, President Obama has grown impatient with my industry.
In a recent speech at the University of Michigan, he said that while most new jobs in coming decades would require college training, access to higher education is increasingly threatened by runaway tuition growth. 鈥淲e鈥檙e putting colleges on notice: you can鈥檛 assume that you鈥檒l just jack up tuition every single year,鈥 he said. 鈥淚f you can鈥檛 stop tuition from going up, then the funding you get from taxpayers each year will go down.鈥