Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Great Disparity. Even in terms of Government-financed veterans' benefits, the Vietvet makes out worse than his counterparts of earlier wars. Whereas the World War II vet who wanted to further his education got full tuition, fees and book costs plus $75-a-month living allowance, the returnee from Viet Nam can expect a maximum of only $130 a month to cover everything. Currently, there are 450,000 returnees receiving G.I. schooling benefits. They enjoy slightly brighter job prospects than did their predecessors, largely because the U.S. economy is stronger than ever before. Last year the U.S. Employment Service...
...Except for the 65,663-student, tuition-free City University of New York (seven senior colleges), which draws half of its operating and building funds from the state and administers six of the state's junior colleges...
Public higher education also faces a financial squeeze, despite the vast sums of money poured into it by state legislatures. Enrollment, salaries and other costs are rising even faster than income. Most state schools have sharply raised tuition-S.U.N.Y...
Wiggins said that, in the past, hikes in either tuition or board have been met with corresponding increases in scholarship appropriations...
Johnson commented that tuition still pays less than half the costs of M.I.T.'s educational operating expenses and none of the capital costs for buildings and laboratories. "For this reason, every student, in a sense, has a scholarship," said Johnson...