A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

Chelsea Grove, working 3 jobs, owes $70,000,

“I will be paying this forever”.

ADA, Ohio — Kelsey Griffith graduates on Sunday from Ohio Northern University. To start paying off her $120,000 in student debt, she is already working two restaurant jobs and will soon give up her apartment here to live with her parents. Her mother, who co-signed on the loans, is taking out a life insurance policy on her daughter....

...State schools are bloated, antiquated and don’t do a good enough job graduating students or training them for the work force. Some complain about the salaries of football coaches and college presidents, like Mr. Gee, who has a     compensation package of $2 million a year as president of Ohio State...

                              .......... Andrew Martin & Andrew W. Lehren