Part of the increase is due to tightened state budgets that no longer offer state university systems a blank check (in favor of $ for public employee unions). At least in the UC system, just under 70% of the budget is for salaries and benefits, so you know where the money is going. A recent trend I’ve noticed in the local community college systems is hordes of Chinese students establishing residency while collecting college credits at the local community college and transferring to the UC of Cal State systems once they qualify for in-state tuition. Seriously, the only people paying the full rate at UC schools are white kids from Iowa. No loss though, can’t do much with a Chicano Studies major anyway.
leakinInTheBlueSea wrote: "No loss though, can’t do much with a Chicano Studies major anyway."
The current 'community organizer'-in-chief demonstrates how much damage can be done by 'educating'/manipulating/brainwashing each generation of voters when fellow - well paid community organizers/educators/brainwashers - are, as Coulter stated:
"... teaching gender studies, ethnic studies, moral equivalence and hatred of America. Did the Japanese Really Start World War II or Did We?"
Do you honestly believe Obama would have been elected, not once, but twice without these invented institutionalized propaganda 'grievance industry' diplomas/degrees?