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All the while, schools have cashed in. The average cost of attending a four-year school in the U.S. rose by 497 percent from the 1985-86 school year to 2017-18, and Columbia University in New York, for example, saw their endowment grew $310 million during the pandemic alone. Students are starting to take action. In April, students at the University of Chicago went on a tuition strike, where they threatened to withhold tuition payments until demands were met. And now students at Columbia are doing the same after the university did not lower its $60,000 a year tuition, despite shifting to mostly remote learning. ....