Those evil Republicans running Harrisburg cut funding for the wealthy state-affiliated colleges and, lo and behold, Penn State just announced an in-state tuition hike of 4.9 percent.
Just proves how much Republicans hate education, right?
Not right.
Charles Mitchell of Commonwealth Foundation points out that this year’s increase is the smallest — by far — in a decade being just a tad over half of the school’s average 8.4 percent annual gouge of young persons and their families since 2001.
Penn State Tuition Hike Lowest In Decade
Penn State President Graham Spanier is one of the highest paid public university presidents, Spanier got $620,000 for the 2008-09 academic year, and has gotten raises since then. I hope he’s not starving.
Where is the consumer outrage against the greediness of “Big Education”? Tuition hikes far exceed the rate of inflation while the intellectual elites pay huge salaries to adminstrators. I feel sorry for the struggling parents who give up their hard-earned dollars and the poor kids who amass tens of thousands of dollar in student loans only to have them graduate into a jobless economy while these institutions sit on multi-million dollar trust fund accounts.