HomeEducation news The real reason college now costs so much - Hannah Ball, Tri-County Times

According to the Michigan League for Public Policy (MLPP), from 2003 to 2015, tuition at almost every Michigan university more than doubled, with some increasing by more than 150 percent. The average tuition for a student attending a state university is $11,991 per year, the sixth highest in the country and second highest in the Midwest. If tuition matched the rise of inflation, tuition would have only been 20.4 percent higher than in 2003.  Matthew McLogan, vice president of University Relations at Grand Valley State University (GVSU), said, “In Michigan, for the last 40 years it has been the practice of the state government to move the cost of attendance off of taxpayers and onto students and their families.”  He said in the 1970s, the state paid about 75 percent of university tuition and students paid the remaining 25 percent. Those numbers have flipped, and then some. At GVSU, students pay 80 percent of tuition and the state pays the remaining 20 percent. http://www.tctimes.com/education/the-real-reason-college-now-costs-so-much/article_29cc9c58-843e-11e7-917f-df4579f716e0.html