{"id":6359,"date":"2014-03-11T07:26:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T13:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2014-03-11T07:26:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T13:26:24","slug":"the-great-cost-shift-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6359","title":{"rendered":"The Great Cost Shift Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Demos<\/a>, a non-partisan research and policy organization, has updated its 2012 report, The Great Cost Shift<\/a>. The initial report<\/a> found that\u00a0disinvestment in public higher education undermined the stability of the middle class by shifting costs to students and their families.<\/p>\n

In its new report, The Great Cost Shift Continues<\/a>, Demos has found that the trend of disinvestment continues unabated:<\/p>\n

“In less than a generation, our nation’s higher education system has become a debt-for-diploma system — more than seven out of ten college seniors now borrow to pay for college and graduate with an average debt of $29,400.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The report found all but one state, North Dakota, is spending less per student than they did before the recession, and more than half the states cut higher education funding by more than 25 percent.<\/p>\n

Most universities responded to funding cuts with tuition increases. The average tuition at a four-year institution costs more than 15 percent of the median household income in 26 states, including Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

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Wisconsin ranks in the bottom half of states in several measures:<\/p>\n