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...McGrath said his payments to HYP are top-level, but he did not indicate that they are the highest of any college he works with. Raising the rebate to $20 per student would net an additional $7,000—or $7,500 if the number of photo sittings rose...
...milk, cereal, clothing, furniture and hotel rooms. Yet in most cases the increases have been marginal. Pet-food prices are up 3% to 6% this year, after three years with no increases. Computers and other electronics continue to get cheaper. The Consumer Price Index for April, reported last week, rose at an annual rate of just 2.4%. The kind of inflation that would provoke a dramatic Fed response is not in the cards anytime soon...
Columbia—the Cincinnati Bengals of the Ivy league—rose from the cellar this season after it posted as many Ivy wins in 2003 (3) as it had in the previous three seasons combined. That might be why Columbia was the only bottom tier Ivy school to see an increase in crowd turnout over its 2002 totals...
Fitzsimmons also noted that the number of minority students in the Class of 2008 increased this year. Of incoming first-years, 19.7 percent are Asian Americans, compared to 18 percent for the Class of 2007. The number of African-American students also rose by 0.4 percent to 9.2 percent, and the yield for African-American students rose from 66.5 percent to 70 percent. Also on the rise is the number of Latino students, who will make up 8.9 percent of the Class of 2008. Native Americans, whose yield jumped from 60 to 94.4 percent, will constitute 1.1 percent...
Across the University, wages and benefits payments rose sharply. Pension plan contributions more than doubled, and total salaries approached $1 billion...