He says public universities are building too many costly facilities while leaving students smothered in debt.

Courier-Journal reports.

Effort underway to freeze Ky college tuition

FRANKFORT, Ky. Despite years of budget cuts to higher education, a Louisville lawmaker wants to freeze college tuition in Kentucky and says public universities are building too many costly facilities while leaving students smothered in debt.

Republican Sen. Dan Seum said Wednesday that he is filing a measure in the 2016 General Assembly that would block any increase in tuition or fees for the next four years. After that, Kentucky universities would need permission from the state legislature – instead of the state Council on Postsecondary Education, to raise their rates.

“It borders on criminal what these universities are doing to these kids,” he said. “I think the universities have seen these kids as nothing more than a cash cow.”