Expense of college
Over the past ten years, the price of in-state tuition at the big state universities in Arizona has doubled. The price of books for the classes at these universities has also just about doubled. It is not rare for a freshman student to pay over $200 for one book, for one class.
This state of fleecing college students as they’re trying to get their life started is obscene. I can understand paying a large sum of money to go to Princeton or Yale, but Arizona State, come on. State school should be as free as possible. Textbooks should cost a reasonable amount and be used by the same classes for at least four years. Professors should limit the amount of money that they ask their students to spend on books for each class. This will force down prices and hold the professors accountable to what they’re asking of their students.
The current state of affairs is an intellectual extortion. Pay up to learn or flip burgers.
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