Quote from OA

"TYCO Print is a printing service where professors can upload course files for TYCO to print out for students as they order. Shorter packets can cost around $20, while longer packets can cost upwards of $150 when ordered with the cheapest binding option."

And later in OA it states that the cost to a student is $0.12 per double sided sheet of printing.

In all of my teaching career here in the UK, the provision of handouts has been a central cost. Latterly I'd send a pdf file with instructions and the resulting 200+ packs of 180 sides would be delivered on a trolley printed, stapled with covers. The cost was rounding error compared to the cost of providing an hour of teaching in a classroom (wage costs, support staff costs, building costs including amortisation &c).

How is this happening?

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lokar 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Two things

Public universities are always underfunded.

Universities can get more money by putting the cost on the students and then they cover it with gov grants and loans.

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eesmith 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Except, Yale is a private university, not public, while very few universities in the UK are private (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Private_universities_... lists 8 and https://studying-in-uk.org/private-universities-in-uk/ lists 11) so 2b3a51 almost certainly means public college teaching experience in the UK.

	▲	graemep 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		your first link implies the definitions of "private" are different.