As State Cuts Back Spending, Costs For Colorado’s College Students Soar

Brian Eason, Denver Post: Politics
Thu, 05/24/2018 - 3:19pm

In 2000, Colorado taxpayers footed 68 percent of the costs of a college degree, with students chipping in about one-third. Two decades and two recessions later, that ratio has nearly flipped as state funding has been cut and tuition has steadily risen to replace it. Even after a 9 percent boost to higher education funding was secured this legislative session, top state budget writers don’t expect tuition to drop any time soon. The public’s ongoing disinvestment in higher education is not unique to Colorado.

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