Word: tuition
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Learning from Bondsmen. In 1960, Georgetown launched the E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowships (named for an alumnus U.S. judge), which annually pay up to eleven graduate students an average $7,000, plus fees and tuition, to spend a year defending indigents. So far, the fellows have defended almost 2,500 clients, thus learning trial law while earning master's degrees and providing needed representation in the process...
...years of intermittent disorder at the university's oldest and most prestigious branch at Berkeley. But the timing of the dismissal was a shock. Only a week earlier, Kerr had fought forcefully, in joint cause with most of the regents, against a 20% budget cut and a tuition fee proposed by newly installed Governor Ronald Reagan (TIME...
...Governor has suggested collecting $400 tuition per student to fill the gap between what Reagan's budget can provide for and what those 10,000 extra students will need. But by his own figuring this will make up only part of the difference. The deficit will be even wider if Reagan fulfills his promise to award scholarships to all students who can't meet the tuition...
...fact, Connecticut and Idaho are the only other states with tuition-free universities. Typical university tuitions: $348 at Michigan, $345 at Washington, $500 at Vermont. Although tuitionless until now, California does charge "incidental" fees...
...Pennsylvania taxpayers for help, Pitt gained a $5,000,000 emergency appropriation in 1965, then became a "state-related" school last fall. As a result of this change in status, state support was hiked from $6,000,000 to $20 million; but Pitt also had to drop its tuition for Pennsylvania students from $1,400 to $450 a year at a loss of $10 million. Pitt announced last week that it is going to give its trimester one more try, will abandon it if enrollment does not rise this spring...