[Starboard]

Bingo! There is no incentive for colleges to reduce costs.

[SMARTY]

Right! And, since none of these people has ever worked in the ‘real world’, money is thrown around like confetti.

They have NO conception of the way money works and if you ask them to economize on ANYTHING ... you just walked into a leaf shredder. They (faculty especially) take it personally and they get unbelievably vicious. A mild mannered even meek faculty member instantaneously grows fangs.