<story><title>U of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100k per year</title><url>https://hechingerreport.org/university-of-chicago-projected-to-be-the-first-u-s-university-to-charge-100000-a-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sorenn111</author><text>One thing I find crazy is the very same institutions that are generally very left leaning, decry income inequality, and espouse generally liberal views then turn around and having tuition costs that having been rising at rates so far above inflation.&lt;p&gt;Student debt is a major issue in the US and the ever increasing costs of tuition are a MAJOR culprit in pushing this crisis. Where are these costs coming from? How can you politically espouse free college while ratcheting up tuition costs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Finnucane</author><text>I work at one local university, and my wife works at another. One thing we&amp;#x27;ve definitely noticed (and this is a widespread problem) is that the administration is becoming more top-heavy. There are cutbacks in faculty, support, and teaching staff, more reliance on adjuncts (academic temps, basically), and so on, while central administration grows. Expensive new buildings contribute, but less than people suppose. But that is a tangential problem, in that wealthy donors want to give big gifts for vanity projects rather than to, say, scholarship funds.</text></comment>
<story><title>U of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100k per year</title><url>https://hechingerreport.org/university-of-chicago-projected-to-be-the-first-u-s-university-to-charge-100000-a-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sorenn111</author><text>One thing I find crazy is the very same institutions that are generally very left leaning, decry income inequality, and espouse generally liberal views then turn around and having tuition costs that having been rising at rates so far above inflation.&lt;p&gt;Student debt is a major issue in the US and the ever increasing costs of tuition are a MAJOR culprit in pushing this crisis. Where are these costs coming from? How can you politically espouse free college while ratcheting up tuition costs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>The tuition price being talked about is the top sticker price.  If you care about inequality, that isn&amp;#x27;t the metric to care about.  You should instead focus on something like median tuition paid since financial aid can mean that any individual student is paying anything from zero up to the full tuition costs.  The concept of the richest students paying a six figure sticker price in order to help compensate for the students on the other end of the socioeconomic spectrum who can&amp;#x27;t afford it is the exact type of thing you would expect from a &amp;quot;left leaning&amp;quot; institution.</text></comment>