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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 3516402, member: 153"] The fact that there are amenities that weren't there before does not mean spending has increased exponentially. It hasn't. All you have to do is take the budget and divide it by students. They can afford rec centers or whatever by cutting elsewhere, chiefly in core instruction. Used to be 75% of the faculty were tenured or tenure-track. Now it's down to less than 25%. Technology is actually a huge cost, as is health care. But then you look at the budgets and realize that they aren't spending a lot more money overall. A long terms study of costs correlated the cuts in state funding to the rise in tuition, and it was almost exact. It used the Cal-system, which has seen a 1,100% increase in tuition in the last 30 years. State funding per student at Cal (Berkeley, etc.) went from $16k+ per student to $9k+. Tuition increased from $1k to $11k+. Then you look at the budget and the increase tracks with inflation. [/QUOTE]