Does Charging for Tuition Reduce Access?

In an era of significant disinvestment in public higher education by state governments in the United States, many public universities are moving towards a ‘progressive tuition model’ that attempts to invest approximately one-third of tuition income into institutional financial aid for lower-income and middle-class students. 

Combined with federal and state financial aid programmes, the objective is to mitigate the cost of tuition and keep college affordable. 

But is this model as currently formulated working? What levels of financial stress are students of all income groups experiencing? And are they changing their behaviours?

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