@suzyQ7 I’m not sure that spending on food service is a big driver of increased tuition. Have you read anything that backs that up? If so I would be curious to see. Thanks. I read a study a few years ago that looked into the drivers of increased college cost and what it concluded that the vast majority of the increase was driven by an explosion in the size of non-faculty school administrations. It was shocking how much larger “management” has gotten in proportion to student or faculty populations. And it’s a vicious cycle because the expanded administrators need to justify themselves so they creation programs, initiatives, etc. that further increase costs. Accordingly the proportion of the total budget that goes directly toward either professor salaries, research or academic classrooms is smaller and smaller. Anecdotally it’s also been my experience that room and board haven’t risen proportionately to tuition and other education expenses. What I’m paying for R&B for my son is barely double what I paid as an undergraduate almost 30 years ago. But tuition is exponentially more. Also, I would say college ALREADY is unaffordable to most. The only thing making it work is financial aid and student debt. And at school’s like Bowdoin where they have full need financial aid and need blind admissions, food service isn’t making it unattainable for anyone. Essentially the half that don’t need financially aid are helping pay for the the financial aid of the half that do. BTW, I wholeheartedly agree that college costs are a massive problem. I’m just not sure I would call food a big driver of that. Certainly the food is far better than when I went to school. Though at Bowdoin they don’t have the fancy new dorms many schools do.