In a 1987 opinion piece in The New York Times, William Bennett, former President Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Education, explained how he thought federal policy was partly to blame for rising college tuition. Under the headline “Our Greedy Colleges,” Bennett wrote that “increases in financial aid in recent years have enabled colleges and universities blithely […]
Graduate Students
Attention to college costs, enrollment and debt is usually focused on undergraduates. But graduate students have become a vital source of revenue for universities, which have raised their tuition faster than for undergrads and added new fees. Graduate students now represent 40 percent of student debt — and are starting to fight back.
