Since Daniels arrived on campus, there have been zero tuition and fees increases. If there is another campus with no increases for seven years, I'm unaware of it. He is described as "notoriously tight with a dollar."
Roughly 70 percent of college students take out loans to finance their education. The average undergraduate leaves school more than $25,000 in debt.I would hope state legislatures would lean hard on their system administrators to emulate Daniels' successes at Purdue. He's shown it can be done and is quite open about how he's done it. Certain public universities in Texas have tried the same approach, I haven't seen a report on how that turned out.
At Purdue, by contrast, nearly 60 percent of undergrads leave school without any debt at all.
