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Tuition Alarmism.(claims that the affordability of higher education is seriously threatened are ambiguous)
William Trombley, College Affordability in Jeopardy, National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, Winter 2003 (highereducation.org)
This widely disseminated report from a higher education research center argues that the affordability of higher education is seriously threatened as a result of hard fiscal times in many states. But the report's argument is self-contradictory, and built on ambiguous data.
The report begins with the claim that spending on colleges "dropped sharply" in 2002-03 budgets. But then a few paragraphs later it acknowledges that the overall trend was more up than down.
From 2001 to 2002, most states held spending on higher education roughly level. Eleven states increased spending significantly. Eleven ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Tuition Alarmism.(claims that the affordability of higher education...