Higher Education: Not What it Used to be

This article naturally interested me because, as a college student, I want to know how higher education is declining in the US.  According to this article, rising debts, rising costs and shrinking financial/educational returns are undermining the university system.  Obviously I knew about the rising costs of universities (and consequential debts) but it was interesting to learn about the other factors contributing to the decline of universities in America.  Something I liked about this article was that it compared the history of American universities to the present and even compared costs, which was quite a shocker!