I need a many references as possible to answer the question "Who is
responsible for the college cost crisis?

Hi! Thanks for the question.

Here are the references I found which are related to your topic.

"The College Cost Crisis" by Rep. John A. Boehner and Rep. Howard P. ?Buck? McKeon
http://www.house.gov/ed_workforce/issues/108th/education/highereducation/CollegeCostCrisisReport.pdf#search=%22College%20Cost%20Crisis%20%22

"The real reasons college costs so much" By Liz Pulliam Weston
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CollegeandFamily/P74829.asp 

"Tuition Rising" Ronald Ehrenberg
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ffp0005s.pdf#search=%22why%20college%20costs%20so%20much%20%22

"Why Does College Cost So Much, and Is It Worth It?" by Newt Gingrich
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,210461,00.html

"Why Does College Cost So Much?" by RICHARD VEDDER
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007170 

" Why Does College Cost So Much?" by Haylye White
http://www.public.asu.edu/~jvanasu/ucai/white/ 

"View: Why College Costs So Much" By KENNETH A. SHAW and DAN A. BLACK
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/jepsen/nytimesApr0801.pdf#search=%22why%20college%20costs%20so%20much%20%22

"Frequently Asked Questions About College Costs" by Robert C. Dickeson
http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/reports/dickeson2.pdf#search=%22why%20college%20costs%20so%20much%20%22

"MONEY U?"
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/may97/tuition_5-1.html 

"College tuition rising faster than the average income" by Mary Beth Marklein
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2002-05-02-afford-college.htm 

"2004-05 college tuition: Movin' on up"
http://money.cnn.com/2004/05/18/pf/college/tuition_increases/

"College costs going nowhere but up" by Rob Kelley
http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/17/pf/college/college_costs/index.htm 

"Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much" by by Sattinger, Michael
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3860/is_200101/ai_n8938063 

"Tuition rising? Not in South Dakota" by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1027/p02s02-legn.html?s=widep

"Tuition Rise Tops Inflation, but Rate Slows, Report Says" By SAM DILLON
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/education/19tuition.html?ex=1287374400&en=1f58066df23516ca&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

"Is College Unaffordable?" by Ronald A. Wirtz
http://www.minneapolisfed.org/pubs/region/05-12/education.cfm 

"Causes of faster-than-inflation increases in college tuition"
by Mark Kantrowitz
http://www.finaid.org/calculators/tuitionanalysis.pdf#search=%22college%20costs%20causes%22

"Collission Course" by The Lumina Foundation
http://www.luminafoundation.org/issues/collegecost/CollisionCourse.pdf 

"Prices, Productivity, and Investment: Assessing Financial Strategies
in Higher Education. ERIC Digest."
http://www.ericdigests.org/1996-1/prices.htm 

PIRG Report
http://www.pirg.org/highered/highered.asp?id2=17297

"Breaking the bank to go to college" by Jennifer G. Hickey
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_33_18/ai_91475054 

"Pressure on College Prices"
http://insidehighered.com/layout/set/print/news/2005/04/20/access

"Why College Costs Are Rising" by John Hood
http://www.self-gov.org/freeman/8811hood.html 

"Tuitions up steeply nationwide"
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0811/p01s03-ussc.html 

"Putting College Costs into Context" by The American Council on Education
http://www.acenet.edu/bookstore/pdf/2004_college_costs.pdf#search=%22college%20costs%22

"The Rising Costs of College" from the NPR
http://www.npr.org/takingissue/20050523_takingissue_college_costs.html 

"The Price of A Higher Education" from Wells Fargo
http://www.wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com/wfweb/wf/college/costs/price.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes

"Study of College Costs and Prices, 1988-89 to 1997-98"
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002157

"TRENDS IN COLLEGE TUITION AND STUDENT AID SINCE 1970"
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/49xx/doc4958/doc16.pdf 

"The Skyrocketing Cost of Higher Education"
http://www.house.gov/ed_workforce/issues/108th/education/highereducation/factsheetcost101003.htm

"Controlling the Price of College
By HOWARD P. McKEON
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/jepsen/chronicle2003-07-11b.pdf#search=%22college%20tuitions%20inflation%22

"The Tuition Aid Trap" by Neal McCluskey 
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3262 

"Are College Costs Out of Line? They Outstrip Inflation, Parents'
Ability to Pay" By Michael Fumento
http://www.fumento.com/collegeprice.html 

"The Great American College Tuition Rip-Off" By Paul Streitz
http://magic-city-news.com/article_3264.shtml

"Runaway College Tuition" By Ralph Reiland
http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleid.16295/article_detail.asp 


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