Being an economist and college president, trends related to the affordability of higher education were never far from top of mind. As I depart my presidency and a new group of freshmen begins to arrive on America’s campuses, an affordability trend remains concerning: the growing, understandable anxiety of the middle class. Those in the middle haven’t been imagining their pain. While all households are facing rising costs of higher education relative to incomes, those truly in the middle of the income distribution are facing larger increases relative to their incomes than those households above them in the income distribution.

September 13, 2016 ・ From The Washington Post