An interesting read and the results of skyrocketing tuition rates are playing out this way in Illinois:
1) Junior College enrollments are skyrocketing.
2) Enrollments at 4 year schools are either increasing at a small pace (EIU, WIU, USI, U of I, IL St, NIU) or are dropping (SIU). The only state school with a significant enrollment increase is the University of Ilinois at Chicago.
If this trend keeps up another 3-5 years, the total full time enrollment at Illinois Community Colleges will exceed that of our state universities. I suspect there will be other states moving in that direction
I am a fulltime employed professor at a medical school. I taught for an hour today (of lecture) and the " reimbursement" for this would not cover my $3.65 lunch (Note clinical teaching is reimbursed at a similar rate). I earn my salary through research and patient care. The problem is that the light teaching loads on faculty and the massive growth in administration and governmental regulation. The latter entails a massive bureaurocracy for paperwork which adds little to education.
