{"id":33608,"date":"2011-08-31T10:04:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T15:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=33608"},"modified":"2013-11-09T06:02:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T11:02:57","slug":"historical-trends-in-college-tuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/08\/31\/historical-trends-in-college-tuition\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Trends in College Tuition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you are in college or not, fall semester 2011 is upon us. Below, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/nortonbooks.typepad.com\/everydaysociology\/2011\/02\/social-mobility-and-higher-education.html\" target=\"_blank\">Everyday Sociology<\/a>, is a graph illustrating the rising cost of college, controlled for inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Public College\/University Tuition, Room and Board (held constant in 2007-2008 dollars):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/11.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33609\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/11.gif\" width=\"482\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Consequent to this increase, the average student in 2008 graduated with twice the debt as a student in 1996, from $12,750 to $23,200.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/05\/10\/the-advantage-of-a-college-degree\/\" target=\"_self\">pay-off of a college education, however, is higher than ever<\/a>. So why don&#8217;t more people go?<\/p>\n<p>In the seven-and-a-half minute video below, UC Berkeley Professor Michael Hout gives a history of higher education putting all of this in perspective. The answer is class-specific and how different classes think about debt and possibility. More:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"390\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JMhqocUrppE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you are in college or not, fall semester 2011 is upon us. Below, courtesy of Everyday Sociology, is a graph illustrating the rising cost of college, controlled for inflation. Public College\/University Tuition, Room and Board (held constant in 2007-2008 dollars): Consequent to this increase, the average student in 2008 graduated with twice the debt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[209,29,36,34,253],"class_list":["post-33608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-class","tag-economics","tag-education","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33608"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58712,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33608\/revisions\/58712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}