UIUC professor shows that tuition hikes are pushing blacks, rural residents out

"In alarming testimony Monday before a state Senate appropriations committee, Lorenzo Baber, an assistant professor of education policy, organization and leadership at the UI, demonstrated that enrollment trends show an Urbana campus student body that is less black and rural and from more affluent areas. The reason, he said, is the UI's rising unaffordability, as tuition increases and student aid remains stagnant."

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2015-04-15/tom-kacich-prof-shows-ui-tuition-hikes-are-pushing-blacks-rural-residents-out.