ESCALATING TUITION: Funding cuts have led to large tuition increases. Nationally, average tuition at 4-year public universities increased by 20 percent in the four years since 2008 after rising 14 percent in the four years prior.In seven states, average tuition increased by more than a third, and two statesâArizona and Californiaâhave raised it by more than two-thirds, or 66 percent.he increase in total costâincluding room and boardâhas been even greater, rising by an average of $2,292 over the same period. Tuition at public 2-year schools has increased sharply as well, rising by an average of 18.5 percent, or $414, since 2008.
This lesson plan will examine how the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 affected the political balance between free and slave states and explore how its author, Stephen Douglas, promoted its policy of popular sovereignty in an effort to avoid a national crisis over slavery in the federal territories.
Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois wanted to encourage people to live in the west territories that were created by the Kansas-Nebraska act. In these territories popular sover â¦ eignty was used to determine the issue of slavery.