Aboard the college tuition roller coaster - Molly Corbett Broad, Washington Post

This month’s announcement of a 5 percent tuition increase in the fall at Maryland public colleges and universities, coming a few months after a 2 percent mid-academic-year hike, was not good news for thousands of students and their families. But, sadly, it is not surprising. It was an inevitable outcome of an all-too-frequent story. This tale demonstrates the roller-coaster nature of state higher education funding in Maryland and nationally and the resulting financial whiplash suffered by students and their families. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/aboard-the-college-tuition-roller-coaster/2015/05/22/8b80040c-fda5-11e4-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html