Reexamining the Tuition Hike

While yesterday's announcement of the mid-year tuition increase of $300 for W&M undergraduates has made the Board of Visitors an unpopular bunch, perhaps we ought to stop, step back, and gain a little perspective, as graciously offered to us by the crisis in California.

Wow. 32% increase in tuition for all University of California campuses? Compared with the thousands of dollars these students have to come up with for next semester, $300 doesn't seem like much.

Still a kick in the shins, but not the kick in the cojones that the UC students are getting.

Fiat Lux? More like Fail at Lux.

Graph based on figures from CNN article & W&M Tuition & Fees,

and may or may not have been created on GraphJam.

(Am assuming that the UC & nationwide figures are also per semester.)