STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
President Biden’s student loan forgiveness triggered debate about an underlying problem. People borrow so much to attend college in part because colleges raised prices over the past half-century. We hear this morning from a university that advertises its effort to hold the cost down. For a decade, Purdue University in Indiana has held in-state tuition just below $10,000 – 9,992, to be exact. The tuition freeze was championed by university president Mitch Daniels. He’s a former Republican governor of Indiana who says that before his arrival, Purdue had raised its price for 36 consecutive years.
MITCH DANIELS: And so I simply raised the question, could we try a one-year timeout? That’s all I imagined at the beginning. Obviously, 10 years later, we’ve been able to continue that. But I would never have dreamed that in…
