U.S. Universities: Make Higher Education Affordable

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American students are facing a college affordability crisis. Student loan debt in the U.S. recently passed $1 trillion. Over the last 30 years, tuition costs have increased 439%.

Unless something changes, this crisis will never end. The college affordability crisis is hardest on U.S. students, who are most vulnerable to tuition hikes, since many are paying for college themselves and are working long hours to make ends meet.

Students who graduated in 2010 carried an average of $25,250 in student loan debt. Wages and employment rates are not going up, so this huge amount is unacceptable. Who can change this?

According to a Federal Commission on the affordability of higher education, “many academic institutions have not seriously confronted the basic issues involved with reducing their costs and that most of them have also permitted a veil of obscurity to settle over their basic financial operations.” We can’t let this continue. We must confront college administrations and demand that reduce their costs. Sign the petition to hold academic institutions accountable and make college affordable for everyone.