NJ colleges boost fees to escape tuition caps

The Star-Ledger reports:

Student at William Paterson University pays $650 a year for a building that doesn't yet exist and most may never set foot in and at Rutgers University each student pays $286 annually to support intercollegiate athletics for tickets to sporting events many will not attend, according to a report in the Record.

Student fees have soared at the state's public colleges -- averaging close to $3,000 a year in New Jersey -- and helped make them among the most expensive in the nation, the report said.
Fees have been used to circumvent mandated tuition caps and to make up for lagging state support of the schools.