“Should universities and colleges include a up-front statement of [extra] expenses when advertising tuition costs to prospective and enrolled students?”

Um, yes?

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Jesse Singal is a former opinion writer for The Boston Globe and former web editor of the Washington Monthly. He is currently a master's student at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Policy. Follow him on Twitter at @jessesingal.