[secabeen]

>What really should have been done, for curbing student debt and stopping nonsensical measures like this one, is to restrict university administrative expansion, board member salary, campus expansion etc. Universities have expanded too much from their core functions of teaching and research, by adding out-reach programs and program administrative staff.

In public institutions, there is a linear relationship between the reduction in state funding for education, and increasing student debt. Per-student spending is down at UC: http://dailybruin.com/2014/11/18/tuition-rises-despite-decli...

Research spend has gone up a lot, but so has federal funding, and the bureaucratic requirements imposed by the feds to obtain that funding. See OMB Circular A-21 if you want your eyes to bleed with this stuff.