Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California tuition battle continues unabated. Last week 3,000 students from the state university marched through the streets of Sacramento for a protest rally at the capitol plaza. There, student and faculty speakers took turns denouncing Governor Ronald Reagan's proposal to impose tuition and cut the budget at both the university and the state colleges. During the rally, the Governor showed up and heard one professor accuse him of seeking to "dismantle California's institutions of higher learning." But Reagan earned applause with his earnest offer to discuss the schools' problems "around the table...
Emotional arguments about whether a public university should charge tuition -and if so, how much-are not confined to California. In 1965 there were student protests at the University of Minnesota when its regents voted to raise tuition $60 a year. Equally strong debates have arisen in recent years over proposals to impose tuition on students of the traditionally free City University of New York, which is supported by both state and city tax money. On the question of tuition, says Vice-Chancellor Harry Levy, "it's essentially a matter of principle-like Old Glory...
Political Muscle. Today, only a handful of public universities survive without tuition: California, C.U.N.Y., Connecticut, Kentucky and Idaho. The median tuition charged state residents at the 97 schools of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Col leges reached $333 in 1967, compared with $312 last year and less than $200 ten years ago. In addition, most state schools charge a variety of fees (for instance, for athletics and lab courses), which can run as high as $240 a year at California...
...Tuition charges generally are highest in the East, where expensive private schools have established the pattern and have the political muscle to influence state legislatures. Some examples of state university tuitions...
...most schools, tuition charges meet less than 20% of the total cost of instruction. Every year the tuition at public universities inches nearer the level of charges at private schools. Every year, also, there is a widening gap between tuition charges for state residents and those who cross the borders. In effect, outsiders are helping to subsidize local students. Out-of-state tuition at the state schools rose 19.9% in 1965, climbed another 6.5% last year, has reached a median of $782. The number of these schools charging nonresidents more than $900 a year has risen from nine...