http://www.cato-unbound.org Big Ideas for a Better World Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/is-college-worth-it/comment-page-1/#comment-358646 The Desert Lamp » ASUA Senate Reports Campus » ASUA Senate Report, 9 December 2009 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:45:56 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?page_id=884#comment-358646 [...] At any rate, this sort of attitude leads to the spiraling costs that we see around the country. The UA sits at the bottom of the peer group, so it ups its fees and tuition to get closer to the “median.” This, of course, raises the median and mean, and leaves a different school at the bottom. They in turn raise their tuition and fees to get closer to the median, and the whole damned cycle repeats itself until people start listening to Charles Murray. [...] [...] At any rate, this sort of attitude leads to the spiraling costs that we see around the country. The UA sits at the bottom of the peer group, so it ups its fees and tuition to get closer to the “median.” This, of course, raises the median and mean, and leaves a different school at the bottom. They in turn raise their tuition and fees to get closer to the median, and the whole damned cycle repeats itself until people start listening to Charles Murray. [...]

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