A new study suggests that lawmakersâ?? chosen way of dealing with the issue â?? trying through public embarrassment and other means to stop colleges from raising their tuitions by excessive rates â?? will do little to change the behavior of the most expensive institutions.
In a policy paper released by the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison analyzed how public and private, non-religious four year colleges and universities would have been affected by a system that imposed sanctions on institutions that raised their tuition by more than twice the rate of inflation over a three-year period, based on their tuition rates from 2004 to 2006.