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Social media wasn’t around back then to show them how college makes people gay, i.e. tolerant and open-minded. It’s hard to lump minorities into a stereotype you hate when you meet individuals, and they’re just people like you.
Plus, the promise of riches from a college education went out the window when it became less valuable than a boomer high school diploma.
Oh they didn't need social media for this then, they all listened to Rush Limbaugh who said this stuff. Media was way more stratified and vertical then. They still believed this stuff and the "American Dream™" which required college for some reason. The two existed simultaneously while being at odds with each other.
What shall we light on fire first? Or who?
Colleges and universities started jacking up their tuition around 1980, when they realized they could charge far more without losing enrollment. So, being the businesses they are, they kept jacking it up. And the beauty of it is that nobody's blaming them, it's all boomers' fault for encouraging education. Win-win!
In the case of at least one school, the state was also cutting back funding.
I would love for this chart to have two extra lines: the cost of tuition and an inflation adjusted cost of tuition. Without those numbers this chart could simply be "the school spent more while getting constant state funding and made the difference up with tuition". That wasn't actually the case here, but the chart doesn't make it obvious.
over-gay
Aka extra big ass gay