College Tuition In The United States
The term college tuition refers to tuition (instruction) fees that students have to pay to colleges in the United States. Tuition increases in the U.S. have caused chronic controversy since shortly after World War II. It was during a time when the work force was slow from the aftermath of war and higher education was blooming in order to pursue more knowledge in hopes of finding a successful, stable career. Many families went into "debt" in order to pay their kids through college to receive the education they needed. Except for its military academies, the U.S. federal government does not directly support higher education. Instead it has offered programs of loans and grants, dating back to the Morrill Act during the U.S. Civil War and the "G.I. Bill" programs implemented after World War II. Developed countries whose national governments directly support higher education tend toward more moderate patterns of change in college tuitions and different forms of controversy. This continued on through the 1970s with the rise of tuition costs, so families and students struggled borrow with loans or use their savings money in order to go to college. Reaching the 1980s when government funding declined, higher education went into inflation with high tuition costs. Citizens of United States were unhappy with the high costs and noted this time in education to be "politically incorrect" with an error in the distributions of payment A closely related issue is the increase in a student borrowing to finance college education and resulting student loan debt.
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