I attended Drew University in Madison, N.J., from 1982 until I graduated in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. It was one of the more expensive colleges in the United States at that time, with tuition and room and board coming in at around 30 grand a year. That is a whopping $120,000 education, and this was more than 35 years ago. Today, Drew University costs more than $230,000 for a four-year degree.
Jim Cegielski
At the time I was accepted into Drew, I was living in a single-parent home that was falling apart and didn’t have running water. My dad, a maintenance worker at a Lipton Tea factory, was the sole provider and he wasn’t even making $30,000 a…
