re: So the u of Bama wants to become more yankee?

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The point I am making is the current funding by the taxpayer would have reduced the instate cost of tuition if the expansion of these campuses hadn't gotten out of hand.


Let's test that theory. Has tuition at other Alabama universities decreased over the last 10 years? The other state schools aren't expanding at the scale of UA, so their tuition must have gone down, or at least held stable...

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Do the cost of funding per AL citizen vs cost of funding per total student enrollment. If the schools were jamming the same amount of students into the existing buildings, you might have a point. The increase in student population comes with an increase in infrastructure, which is passed on to all students. That is why tuition has increased.