EDIT: Wow, the largest ever tuition increase happened this year, a 3.4% average increase.
https://research.collegeboard.org/trends/college-pricing/fig...
Here's the kicker:
>Part-time faculty and teaching assistants now account for half of instructional staffs at colleges and universities, up from one-third in 1987, the figures show.
>During the same period, the number of administrators and professional staff has more than doubled. That’s a rate of increase more than twice as fast as the growth in the number of students.