Student loan debt

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17. It's multiple factors really

Cutting of state funding. It's also a unprecedented increase in administrative overhead over the last 20 years. Also a massive increase in pay for certain administrative positions.
These factors are at the root of the increased costs.
Books costs have dramatically increased in the last 10 yrs alone.
I have relatives spending a out $400 a semester for books or sometimes a single book can cost that.
All this while cutting the number of tenured professors and increasing adjunct professors (no tenure track or even benefits in most cases) and TAs teaching classes (also no tenure or benefits and sometimes not even paid).