Talk:College tuition
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[edit] The closing college door
The widespread alarm over "the closing college door" during the 1950s, leading to the National Defense Student Loan Act,[1] then attending and paying for MIT during the 1960s rush of tuition hikes, were formative experiences for me. Having endured those times, I never expected anything so difficult again. Yet it was so, when our two sons attended research universities (not MIT) during the 1980s and 1990s. The enormous time and expense to create a research university limits the supply of such services, which is far outpaced by the demand for them. Barring a depression of even greater harshness than the 1930s, the trends seen since World War II may well continue for another 50 years or more.
Left out of the original version of this article is any mention of loans and scholarships, particularly the "need-based" scholarships that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. Someone who knows these topics better than I should undertake a summary. It is hoped that writers on this topic will deal with the reluctance of anyone ingrained in our culture to be labeled as a beggar.
- ^ See National Defense Education Act, 1958, work of Carl D. Perkins from the Seventh Congressional District of Kentucky.
Craig Bolon 23:30, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks
Great work, Craig! Just copyedited the article a bit — hope you don't mind. jareha (comments) 00:34, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Categories
I removed Category:Educational stages and Category:School types because college tuition is neither an educational stage or school type. It's a form of education financing, which is why I left Category:Education finance. jareha (comments) 16:50, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] In state vs out of state
Can we include something about in-state tuition being cheaper than out-of-state tuition? It often has a lot of crence over where students go.
[edit] First Graph
As a constructive comment, I think the first graph on this page would be much more illustrative if it included only inflation adjusted lines and was not on a logaritmic scale. It would be less cluttered and convey with full force the fact that the "real" price of education is increasing very quickly over time.
