The Texas Alum Running Texas Tech Into the Ground
Today's NYT on the Orwellian leadership in Lubbock.
From the article: "Mr. Creighton, who is from Conroe, Texas, north of Houston, earned a bachelor’s degree in government from the University of Texas at Austin and a law degree from Oklahoma City University. He said his views on higher education were shaped, in part, by his own difficulties paying for college. "
Why was his tuition at Texas so expensive? It's an easy answer. In 1986 UT tripled tuition - increasing the price per unit to $12. There were protests on campus.
Even with that increase the state invested in undergraduate education, covering more than 75 percent of the cost. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s the state continued to replace state funds with tuition dollars - effectively taxing students to pay for state government.
Today the state covers about 10 percent of undergraduate education. GenX politicians got their education subsidized by taxpayers and now want future generations to "do it in their own, like I did." Except they didn't.