College tuition and its continued rising is just another one of the massive issues in the sea of problems that our country has yet to face or change. The price of college has skyrocketed and at the rate that it is going presently, will continue to rise and rise. In the L.A. Times article “Colleges: Where the Money Goes” written by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus is a very detailed and passionate review that discusses the rising college tuitions that virtually every school around the United States is faced with. The article reiterates several times that one of the main departments on a college campus that receives the most money is the athletic department. College sports has become such a “gold mine” for colleges and universities and there is a significant amount of money put out from the school before anything is brought in. The administration at schools has also greatly contributed to the increase in tuition. The article states that the number of administrators per student has doubled since 1980. These new administrators with new titles must be paid somehow and where else would the school receive that from other than the student’s tuition payments? This article is just as factual as it is controversial and gives much of the reasoning needed to display why so many of America’s youth can not afford to attend any institution of higher learning. The reason is simply that the prices are unmanageable and impossible to pay. Money talks and in this specific case in an unfamiliar and unreasonable language.
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