Word: hike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHENEVER a university raises its tuitior, it sets off a furor among students who violently oppose paying even more than what they already consider an exorbitant cost. Such furor is increased when the institution is Harvard and when the hike in tuition reflects a continuing trend of cost increases outpacing inflation...
...ninth consecutive year, University officials have announced a tuition hike that exceeds inflation. Undergraduate fees for tuition, room and board and health charges will rise by 6.5 percent to $19,135. At this rate, a graduate of the Harvard Class of 2000 will have paid well over $100,000 for a college education, which will take up a larger part of a family's real income than it does...
Every year, it seems, the same scenario takes place. The University announces a tuition hike that greatly outpaces inflation. It then tries to justify this high increase by blaming the Reagan administration's attempts to slash federal funds for higher education and emphasizing the high cost of maintaining competitive faculty salaries and upgrading the University's physical facilities. Financial aid officials then assure the two-thirds of the student body who receive financial aid that their needs will...
Granted, as officials in the University's financial aid office are quick to point out, the immediate effects of the tuition hike will be offset by increases in grants to students. Unfortunately, however, the effects of a 6.5 percent tuition hike are not quite so easy to gauge. A student from a modest-to low-income background may very well be irrevocably dissuaded from applying to Harvard by the news of another large tuition hike...
...what is perhaps most disturbing about the University's upcoming tuition hike is the continuing precedent it sets. Since many colleges follow the University's lead in tuition pricing, Harvard should take special care to hold its prices down. Indeed, in the past several years, Harvard and many of the nation's colleges and universities have been taking advantage of the prevailing attitude that larger tuition prices signify more prestige and high-quality education...