[Paladin2]

"I’m all ears regarding any good ideas anyone might have."

Make Full Profs teach at least 3 useful classes each semester/quarter and cut the number of Administrators in half.

[Verginius Rufus]

At my university most professors (full, associate, or assistant) teach a 4-4 load...there is talk of moving to a 3-3 load but some departments don't like the idea because it would be hard to offer all the courses their students need. I have sometimes taught 5 courses in a semester but the current provost doesn't allow that. We also have a lot of underpaid adjuncts.

There are a lot of state universities which charge somewhere in the $6K to $10K range for annual tuition and fees. If students attend an in-state university, live at home and work part-time they don't have to be deep in debt by the time they graduate. Of course some live too far from a state university to be able to live at home.