Public colleges list 'all-in' costs over $50,000 at some UC campuses
The soaring costs of public universities is a political decision. When these schools predominantly served white students, they tended to be free (UC, CCNY, etc.) But as the number of students of color has increased, funding for the public universities has decreased. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/b...
gingerpaste.bsky.social33Once again white supremacy hurts everyone
Disaffected and it Feels So Good7Just use your paper route earnings to pay for your schooling!
Dave Klassen4Of course it was racism. I'm sad I didn't see it. I just assumed it was Reagan Repubs gutting the good because that's what Cons do.
D. Hicks4The story is about high housing costs near some schools, not tuition and fees
AP Rudy4It's as much structural as it is political. Prejudice didn't cause 7 years of stagflation, it informed but didn't cause Reagan's recession, the S&L collapse or the dip at the end of the Cold War; or the bursting of the internet bubble; or the 9/11 recession; and it informed but didn't drive 2008.
Tom Shafer3State funding for public universities also felt political pressure in the response to the Vietman War protests of the 1960s. Republicans, in particular, punished colleges for allowing protests to happen. Similar threats to cut federal grants by Trump over Gaza protests happened in 2025.
Mark Copelovitch780Your regular reminder that the solution to ~every single problem with 🇺🇸 higher education - both real & imagined - is to <all together now> Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Adam Miller209We have to stop choosing to make the world worse to maintain existing hierarchies
Don Moynihan176Rising costs is a real problem and the writer here focuses on a factor that the university has limit control over, which is housing. But the practice of quoting sticker prices misses that most get discounts or tuition waivers for lower income. UC says most in-state students pay zero tuition.
Jake Wright12In 1985, you could attend your state's public flagship with no debt by working a summer job at McDonalds. A year of tuition at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities was $1,704. The difference between then and now is that your state subsidized 90% of the cost of attendance via direct funding.
AK10Oh, I know. There’s no coincidence that education costs skyrocketed around the same time that Black women became the most educated demographic in the country.
breadedhamster.bsky.social9White people burning down society because black people might benefit is a psychotic level of racism.
Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)7My community college is tuition-free for full-time students pursuing a degree.
Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed7The right-wing trick - what it did with most previous govt services (cut, privatize, complain about result) - now in public higher ed. Fight w budget action. Follow the money, demand change over the money $$$. Cuts are not the solution to the problem. Cuts are the problem. Stop accepting less.
Eddy Conroy6The article is rightly more nuanced than this post. The main driver of that headline figure is housing. Yes tuition is a challenge, but it’s not what has pushed cost of attendance over $50k.
Sarah Milov6This is a major part, possibly the major part, of the “crisis of the humanities.”
“This, like so many laments about what things cost in America, is a housing story. Public schools that provide a residential undergraduate education are also selling undergraduates an education in what it means to afford a residence.”
Louise Seamster19this is small in the scheme of things, but: it's not just "a small park [Cal] has owned for decades," it was PEOPLE'S PARK, made *by the people* after UCB bought it, evicted residents and *bulldozed the homes*. www.peoplespark.org/wp/history/
Bitchy Witchy3We’re building student housing for our community college students. It should go without saying their adjunct instructors aren’t afforded the same.
“The people who scream the loudest that there is no value in higher education all have a college degree, and their children are all enrolled in college,” says Chuck Welch in @insidehighered.com’s coverage of the National Student Success Project. Read more: tinyurl.com/2n934aaa
SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon6I’m so glad @sunyofficial.bsky.social is a founding member of this initiative and has been acting on its underlying principles for years. I appreciate @sunychancellor.bsky.social John King’s vision, leadership, and untiring efforts to advance student success across SUNY. This, too, is #MADC
Dr. Vanessa Campanacho3They only want the elites to have a higher degree, but not the rest of the population. How are they going to bring back feudalism if everyone is educated?!?
Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed2Yesssss!! Here is this reality, faculty and staff working for students are not elitists here. The elitists are the folks with college degrees working and publishing in fields that require college degrees, telling people that higher education has no value.... @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social
Public Colleges Are Passing the $50,000-a-Year Mark. For Locals. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/b...
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy17The cost of higher education got decoupled from normal inflation a long time ago. The question for most students and their families is how big is the discount rate? Aka what is the real price? 🎓💰
Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD8It's a housing issue. "When universities spend decades ceding their undergraduate housing market to nearby landlords while the student population grows, they lose a certain measure of control. Eventually, it becomes a crisis, the school’s cost of attendance approaches $50,000..."
