Word: magrath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the general focus on lower-level education, a healthy bureaucratic battle has been waged over questions of higher education. Yet a number of educators bemoan the fact that higher education is not, in the words of University of Minnesota President C. Peter Magrath, "a politically attractive issue...
...Magrath says the electorate is short-sighted in focusing exclusively on elementary and secondary schools to the detriment of higher education issues, which in the end have a great long-term significance...
More ominous, says Minnesota's Magrath, the next nine months are not likely to yield any substantive proposals for higher education--beyond the specific rebutting on the Reagan budge...
...public institutions has been dramatic. At Washington these costs have doubled (from $689 to $ 1,320) in the past three years. Last year Minnesota's instructional charges rose 21.5%, and this year they will go up an additional 15.9%, to $ 1,693. Says Minnesota's president, Peter Magrath: "In the public sector of higher education, really low tuition has gone the way of cheap gasoline...
...Magrath and other educators are concerned that the rising costs are making it more difficult for students from low-income families to attend college. In 1970, the University of Michigan set a 10% goal for black enrollment. Today the Ann Arbor campus has the seventh highest charge for tuition and fees ($2,193) of any state university, and a black student population of less than 5%. Says James McDermott, a Washington State senator: "Education is more and more becoming the province of the haves...