from the Boulder Daily Camera

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2007/jul/15/is-americas-love-affair-with-college-on-the/

Is America's love affair with college on the rocks?

By Andrew L. Yarrow Special to The Baltimore Sun
Sunday, July 15, 2007

We've all seen the bitingly clever bumper stickers that proclaim, "My child and my money go to X University." I'm a college professor, and when my students gripe about $50,000 annual costs and associated debt, I tell them they don't want to know what I paid a quarter-century ago (60 times less in current dollars).

But new research by Public Agenda and the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education indicates that Americans' unease even bitterness toward higher education runs deeper than Mercedes-a-year tuition bills. College administrators and education policymakers would be wrong to ignore the growing chorus of complaints among millions of American parents and students.