Let me suggest an answer to Tommy_G’s question. Look around the quad of even the most modest little campus and you will certainly see a “Women’s Center”, perhaps an “African-American” building. A “LGBTs”, “Asian-American”, “Latino” “Native American”‘ ad nauseum buildings speckle the campus of even midsized schools. And with each of these come “Directors of Diversity” and “Equal Opportunity Officers” with staffs and office space and the power and responsibility to police admissions, hiring,course offerings, grant money, down to the naming of the buildings. The just and well intentioned vision of the civil rights era has become the nose counting, group splitting, aggrievement cultivating present. Pile on to this the seeming need for princely dorm accomodations, immense sporting complexes and administrative staff upon staff to meet federal and state education regulations, and a college becomes like a giant, sticky, layer cake collapsing under its own weight. So you might understand why the community college I attended has raised it tuition from $760 a year (an amount I could cover with careful budgeting while working as a janitor) to its current $4190. This price is without room and board. My daughter recently headed off to a pricy selective private college in the Hudson river valley (no, not that one) with a yearly tuition of $57,000. I now realize the cost of my first two years of a through technical education would only cover one week of her misty liberal arts experience.