While billions have been cut from state government’s budget during the Great Recession, the University System of Georgia has been on a comparative spending spree.
Spending has gone from $5.4 billion in 2007 to a projected $7 billion this year, as colleges built expensive buildings, hired high-priced administrators, bought top-of-the-line technology, added football teams and dozens of new academic programs and even bought a golf course.
To help pay the rising costs, the system raised tuition and fees. Tuition at the University of Georgia has increased by 50 percent since 2008, and student fees have increased 87 percent.
System officials say growing enrollment and cuts in state funding are to blame for students paying hundreds or thousands of dollars more annually.
Read the full story at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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