Students want more than they did before. More counseling, more recreational activities, better housing. There are still a lot of other gaps too that students are demanding to be filled, like workers compensation for graduate students who run labs and get injured when things explode in their face. Universities also partake in expensive undertakings like performing research and hosting conferences and the like, the cost of which tend to increase more than the price of bread and gas over time.<p>I think people see higher education as a huge bill that just has to be cut because it&#x27;s big. It is much more complex than people think. I have been a part of this system literally my entire life, starting from my birth while my mother was in law school.<p>If you have suggestions on how to reduce the cost of higher education, I am all ears. Just know that people who come in and think they can run it &quot;like a business&quot; are a laughingstock from California to Cambridge.