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POINT OF VIEW
As a way to keep the cost of higher education affordable, Republican members of Congress have introduced legislation to punish colleges and universities that raise their tuition twice the rate of inflation or more. What is perhaps most ironic about their bill is that it would almost certainly have precisely the opposite effect were it to...
Tying Tuition to the CPI: Why It Doesn't Add Up
By ALEXANDER W. ASTINAs a way to keep the cost of higher education affordable, Republican members of Congress have introduced legislation to punish colleges and universities that raise their tuition twice the rate of inflation or more. What is perhaps most ironic about their bill is that it would almost certainly have precisely the opposite effect were it to...
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