Word: harrises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This proposal to hike charges has been advanced by Seymour E. Harris '20, chairman of the Department of Economics. Harris believes that tuitions should be doubled immediately, and the cost spread over a 20 to 40 year period through long-term loans.
Harris, however, is not alone in proposing increased tuitions. A. Whitney Griswold, President of Yale University has suggested that the student be charged more nearly the full cost of his education. Goheen specifically rejected this argument.
In such a long term proposal as this, it is necessary to have a very clear and accurate crystal ball to estimate expenses and future conditions. Harris thinks that the current amount of loans needed is about a billion and a half dollars per year, and by 1970 about two...
What would the effects of such a program be on the recipients and on the universities themselves? The universities certainly would profit. "A rise of $500 in tutition made possible substantially by an adequate loan program," Harris says, "would double salaries and re-establish the economic status of faculty at...
What Harris has done by his plan is try to make the best way out of a bad situation. So far the bad situation remains insurmountable: dwindling resources, inflation squeeze, enrollment increase, faculty pay demands. Anything is possible, but some things are certain. That Harris' plan would work, is possible...