More on Vanderbilt’s “Red Tape”. This Time a Senator Uses it to Go to Town

Here is what the Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tenn., wrote in and op-ed piece.

“…Clear out the federal red tape that soaks up state dollars that could otherwise go to help reduce tuition. The Boston Consulting Group found that in one year Vanderbilt University spent a startling $150 million complying with federal rules and regulations governing higher education, adding more than $11,000 to the cost of each Vanderbilt student’s $43,000 in tuition…”

After all he gets to cite the findings of A UNIVERSITY – and, as Judge Frank Easterbrook once wrote, universities care about the truth.  (I will leave his pernicious effect on universities is for another day.)