Higher Education Costs Archives - Kansas Policy Institute

More State Funding Won’t Stop Tuition Hikes 0
- Tax & Spending
- May 28, 2019
Kansas students are suffering financially from the accelerating cost of college. If policymakers truly seek to provide tuition relief, they should realize state aid has little to zero effect on tuition hikes. The idea that education needs more state funding strongly influences Kansas policy. To that degree, the legislature approved an extra $33 million in
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Media Ignores Facts, Excuses University Tuition Hikes 1
- Education
- June 20, 2017
The annual ritual of universities making sad-faced announcements of tuition increases and blaming them on state funding cuts took place last week. And in keeping with tradition, media abandoned basic journalistic principles and basically functioned as the Regent’s press office. Media didn’t question whether university tuition increases could be partially or fully avoided (they can)
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Kansas Action for Children “report” wrongly blames Kansas tax changes for stratospheric higher ed costs 0
- Education
- October 11, 2016
A Kansas student entering KU in the fall of 2001 had tuition and fee costs of $1,442, according to the Kansas Board of Regents. A decade later, the cost of admission leapt to $4,013. That’s a 179% increase, more than 6 times the rate of inflation for that period. Even the least expensive Fort Hays
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