The cause is a vicious circle because it's a form of shifting costs away from state and federal funding over to students. However, the parents and students need to find other means for reducing their cost such as attending a community college for your first two years, or buying or renting used books. That's not a good trend. Actually, colleges and universities should look for ways to reduce the costs of instructor and administrator expenditures, not just raising tuition to cover expenses. Although most people resent rising costs, some people approve it because staff and faculty need to eat. To make sure your college is staffed with good professors, the schools need to pay them properly. Professors dedicate years to their education so they will be in a position to earn the money they deserve, and there will avoid excellent staffs and professors that might otherwise seek employment. In an article “College Costs Keep Rising, Report Says” by Tamar Lewin in The New York Times acknowledges the following:
Over the last 30 years, college costs have risen steadily, especially at four-year public universities, once considered the affordable route to higher education. At such universities, the last decade’s increases, adjusted for inflation, have been the …show more content…
They face huge budget shortfalls, so they have to increase tuition to offer operation and keeping excellent staff and professors. All students have the right to attend colleges or universities, but the tuition and fees is too expensive to many people; also, some students have to get a part-time job to support their school costs, and that may affect students’ study. As Ronald G. Ehrenberg remind:
“The market leaders, the most selective institutions with the highest endowment per student and tuition levels- Princeton, Harvard, and Yale-will provide the answer to this question. For if these institutions slow down their rate of increase in tuition, the other selective institutions will eventually have to do so also. Most of budget sources is responsible provide universities themselves” (266).
If they can control the increasing rate of the tuition, why are public universities unable to do