Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University administrators and national researchers attribute the shift to reliance on tuition income and the dramatic yearly increase in tuition prices to a variety of sources, ranging from the high cost of library acquisitions, building maintenance and laboratory equipment to a desire to become more selective by becoming more expensive...
Thoughout the five-year bull market, Harvard did not increase the percentage of endowment spent each year to reduce the tuition burden, until a policy shift last fall. At that time the administration raised the amount of endowment spent during the current fiscal year. However, this increase did not lower tuition hikes...
Another trend straining universities' pocketbooks in recent years is falling federal funding. Hauptman says that budget cuts under the Reagan administration have forced colleges to place greater financial burdens on students who can afford to pay full tuition. Scott says Harvard has experienced a similar "cost shift...
Last week, City Councillors David E. Sullivan and Saundra M. Graham announced they would not seek re-election next year. Both are members of the pro-rent control Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), and their withdrawal could leave the Council open for a possible shift in its balance of power...
Observers say a shift from this pattern could pave the way for a change in the city's rent control policies...