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Just like college tuition. The easier it is to fund an education the more expensive it gets.

I was going to go there, but the last time I did on Slashdot I was immediately pounced on and pummeled by people who work for universities and colleges. Apparently I had gored some sacred ox.

Finding any historical cost per credit hour data was fairly hard, schools don't really want you to see this.
I finally found some for the University of Nebraska, Kearney, a state funded school, where a 2011-12 credit hour costs $168. Back in 1964-5 this cost was 9 bucks per credit hour.

Using the Dollar Times calculator $9.00 in 1964 had the same buying power as $65.73 in 2012. So, instead of charging $65.73/ch, UNK is now charging$168, or 2.5 time the inflation equivalent per credit hour.

Kearney isn't alone in this, Central Michigan is actually worse.
They charged $85.50/ch in 1993, which had the same buying power as $135.98 in 2012, but they are charging $358/ch or 2.6 times inflation.

Admittedly, state funding levels may have changed, and more money may now be raised by tuition and fees with less tax dollar input.
Its hard to know, without digging thru the University budgets over the years.

But in any event, I suspect that you are correct, that the cost of college expands to absorb the available funds.

Have a decent read of the above link. It is a fascinating story. Anyone know what the current status of the school is?

I'm not sure that the organic/inorganic dichotomy they're referring to in this article is the chemical one. I think they mean "living/nonliving", too.

See these rather superb lecture notes for a discussion of the definition of life and the distinction between living and non-living replicators. (Of course, it's not viri, that's men, but viruses, but I can forgive that one).

At my college they use the same methods to limit P2P file sharing with exactly the same effects of getting connection speeds that are slower than a 14.4Kbps connection. I normally wouldnt complain about this because they do have the right to do that as our ISP, unfortunately they use the same device/program to limit gaming packets!!! Thats right the thing I was looking forward to was finally having a decent ping in Tribes2 and now I get a ping of over 1000 in game. Those bastards!

It links to the Himanchal High School page there. Its timing out for me right now, so here is a google cache

Mahabir is spreading the word about UNK in Nepal and we now boast a good-sized community of Nepalese students. Most of them are here in our Computer Science/Information Systems program. UNK boasts a large number of international students considering that we are a small university (approx. 6500 students) in the middle of the heartland. We support our international students in a variety of ways and boast one of the best educational values (read: low tuition, low cost of living) in the country!

If you are looking for a safe, low-crime environment in which to get your undergraduate degree:Check us out!.

Lower bandwidth site: here.

Curious George

Mahabir is spreading the word about UNK in Nepal and we now boast a good-sized community of Nepalese students. Most of them are here in our Computer Science/Information Systems program. UNK boasts a large number of international students considering that we are a small university (approx. 6500 students) in the middle of the heartland. We support our international students in a variety of ways and boast one of the best educational values (read: low tuition, low cost of living) in the country!

If you are looking for a safe, low-crime environment in which to get your undergraduate degree:Check us out!.

Lower bandwidth site: here.

Curious George

This 'Camobodian model' for getting school funding to rural third world communities is really excellent. I spent last summer teaching in a rural Nepalese village which faced similar obstacles in supporting education, and I wonder if a similar program couldn't be implemented there. Anyway, I'm going to plug my village: visit here to learn more about the school I worked at, the projects going on there in Nepal and how you can help.