The report aims to debunk four “myths” about tuition increases, and at the top is “Faculty are to blame for rising tuition.” To counter this, the report compares the five-year change in “average net price tuition” — cost of attendance less financial aid — to faculty pay increases.
Nationally, the report says, net price tuition rose about 6.5 percent. By comparison full-time faculty salaries declined 0.12 percent. The report doesn’t offer five-year data for individual institutions, but does give average salaries for the 2012-13 school year — the latest available federal data — and percent change from the previous year for most local colleges and universities.
