Not really. Professors’ salaries have been pretty flat. That’s not what’s driving up tuition. It’s mainly cuts in state funding and more administrative hires required by increased government regulation.
http://m.chronicle.com/article/Administrator-Hiring-Drove-28-/144519
Give me a break, over 100K to “work” a few hours a day with summers and sabbaticals? lol
Admin hires, bloated expenses and new buildings and monuments...
One community college instructor I met in an industrial design capacity said something telling, “they spend all their $ on buildings and monuments and awards, we spend our little $ on cool stuff for the students to build and design with...our buildings may be ugly but I’ll put our students against MIT’s any day in designing and R & D”...
I paraphrased, but you get the gist.
University funding will crash and there will be empty buildings like in China soon around campuses...they keep building and building...