(from bloomberg.com)
Administrative cost increases are generally blamed for high tuition,
but at some places faculty salaries are also cited, e.g.
Faculty Productivity and Costs
at The University of Texas at Austin: A Preliminary Analysis,
Richard Vedder, Christopher Matgouranis, Jonathan Robe;
Center for College Affordability and Productivity, May 2011:
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Looking only at the UT Austin campus, if the 80 percent of the faculty
with the lowest teaching loads were to teach just half as much as the
20 percent with the highest loads, and if the savings were dedicated to
tuition reduction, tuition could be cut by more than half ...
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