"Incumbents Prospering From a System Don't Have Much Interest in Seeing It Change"

"Most colleges are seen in a fairly benevolent light. Large higher-education institutions are often major employers in their communities. They drive innovation, and provide sanctuary to some of our best thinkers. And for many adults, they are wrapped in the warm and fuzzy gauze of nostalgia. It's hard to get people to see them as propping up a crisis that is over-burdening students and even stunting the growth of our economy. But until we do, it’s going to be very difficult to see any change."

David Dayen at The New Republic argues that the main obstacles to free public higher education are college administrators.