Colleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition
&gt;...maybe it will dawn on Barack Obama, by then retired and relaxing on the beach in Hawaii, that maybe we shouldn’t have thought of education as a market in the first place. Maybe college shouldn’t be about individuals getting rich. Maybe there is another purpose.<p>Maybe the federal government shouldn&#x27;t involve itself in private colleges at all?  What mandate does the US government have to interfere in college pricing or the existence of an on-campus LGBT center?<p>College tuition has gone up for three reasons (in order of importance)<p>1) <i>Griggs v Duke Power</i><p>2) The availability of huge amounts of credit to students combined with an easy way to rank colleges, the accept:reject ratio.<p>3) Government mandates, particularly under Title IX and &quot;dear colleague&quot; letter type nonsense.