The College President Who Simply Won’t Raise Tuition

“Mitch Daniels has frozen Purdue’s tuition—at less than $10,000—for seven straight years.” …

…He is notoriously tight with a dollar. Friends recall that as a beginning golfer, he played with a garden glove he already had instead of a store-bought, $3 golf glove. His parsimonious nature, when applied to public matters, is one reason he received more votes than any other officeholder in Indiana history in 2008, when he won reelection as governor, and it’s why he and his university—a 150-year-old land-grant school in West Lafayette, Indiana—are objects of curiosity and even wonderment in the world of higher education." …

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/mitch-daniels-purdue/606772/