Bussiness are hurting for dollars banks are falling and people are losing Jobs, then why hasn't colleges lose?

College hasn't losed (lol) because places like Harvard have $35 billion in their endowment ( that means that Harvard has $35 billion in their bank account). If you don't believe it, google "Harvard endowment". Harvard never lowers their tuition costs, why are on earth would they want to give anyone a break? For some unknown reason, people don't care what Harvard costs per year, or if Harvard averages 15 to 20% per year on their $35 billion, or if they constantly raise tuition. Penn State only (only, ha ha) has a "paltry" $1.51 billion in their endowment, and they will never, ever lower tuition costs. The Liberal Democrats don't really care that colleges are overpriced brainwashing factories (by Liberal Democratic professors), or that the colleges are all crying "poormouth", because the stock market is lower, and (wah wah) they won't get all the appropriations they normally get from taxpayers. Go and google 'appropriations to state colleges fall'. And ask yourself, why are taxpayers forced to pay all of this money, for someone else's child, who has CHOSEN to go to college? It's because of Liberal Democratic politicians. And if you dare disagree with using YOUR tax money to "assist" someone else's child, then you are labeled as a "Republican who doesn't care if your kid ends up working at a fast food joint." I believe I just read where a NY City college just raised it's tuition to $50,000. That's for one year. Huh? You'd be better off putting $50,000 in the bank for 4 years, and have your child find employment from the time he/she is 18 until he/she turns 21, and then let them decide if they still want to go to school. An 18 year old's brain isn't fully matured until around age 21. Some, not all, kids want to go to school because their freinds do, and they get to go on spring break (school is tough, wah) and engage in underage drinking at a beach. You can join the military at 18, learn a trade for free (any career you choose), and Uncle Sam will pay you monthly, you get to see the world, and if you have the grades, you can get a free education and Uncle Sam will repay your patriotism by supplying most of the funds for a college education, after your service, normally 2 to 4 years. Talk to a recruiter - it costs nothing - and you may decide that it is right for you. After all, the Marine Corp builds men.

It could work to put the squeeze play on the colleges, force down the pay to the educators and staff, force them to keep the library closed for lack of funds. Well there really are a lot of ways a college might cut its costs, and some of them might not hurt as much as the high costs.

You might want to promote this anonymously for fear of reprisals from faculty hurt by the move. They too have mortgages to pay.

Why not also insist on paying less for a taxi or bus ride, a hair cut, your grocery bill, pay less for your utilities, rent, mortgage payments, cut your car payments. Basically if you think you can get away with it. College is a big ticket item, and big ticket items come first to mind. But this particular big ticket item may be better left until the practice of haggling is well established. Like why us first they will say?

Kind of early to be correlating enrollment to the economy. Give it a few months, and if things don't improve, you will see a big difference. Heck, look what has happened to the price of gas over the last week or so.

Colleges just raise their prices and people pay it.