AvatarGerald MajorsColleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition, bankrupt generations, and hypnotize the mediaverified_publisherSalon - By Thomas FrankThe price of a year at college has increased by more than 1,200 percent over the last 30 years, far outpacing any other price the government tracks: food, housing, cars, gasoline, TVs, you name it. Tuition has increased at a rate double that of medical care, usually considered the most expensive of …