Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students are carefully chosen to represent a cross-section of metropolitan high schools, drawing almost half from public schools despite the high tuition rate of $1450. Twenty per cent of the students are on full scholarship and more are on partial scholarships...
...Expanded Facilities. The enrollment cutback-if it happens-would occur just at a time when most graduate schools have been expanding their facilities. The deans fear not only a sharp drop in income from tuition, but also a crippling of the research now largely carried out by graduate students on behalf of their supervising professors. Since graduate students also carry much of the undergraduate teaching load at big universities, a depletion of their ranks would force some professors out of their labs and libraries and back into classrooms. That, in turn, might force research-oriented scholars to switch to universities...
Students pay up to $500 tuition for two to five days of courses, and Colvin expects a profit of $100,000 this year, much of which he will put back into the venture to keep it growing...
...rural youths, the excitement of living in Tokyo compensates for classroom tedium. Money is rarely a problem. A student can find board and room-the universities have few dorms-for as little as $30 a month. A curry-and-rice lunch costs 30 cents. He can meet his tuition and fees (about $40 a year in state-owned Tokyo University, up to $500 in a private school) by tutoring high school students...
Many a U.S. university has attempted to end ancient town-gown antagonisms by providing intellectual and cultural services to the community in which it exists. A striking example is the tuition-free Ithaca Neighborhood College founded three months ago by six Cornell University students...