Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dillingham pared many elective courses to concentrate his staff to an unusual degree on interdisciplinary general studies, which attracted national notice. He raised tuition, upgraded faculty salaries (from a miserable median $3,900 in 1953, they now stand at $10,000). Then, on a summer day in 1959, Dillingham rode up South Hill, looked out over Cayuga Lake and instantly decided: "We will build our campus on the hill...
...union, dining hall and health center. New York State floated $12 million worth of 30-year tax-free bonds for music, athletic, library, science, fine arts and other administration buildings. All will be paid off, at the rate of $1,377,000 a year, from student dormitory fees and tuition, which total $2,800 per student. Modern buildings, insists Dillingham, help pay for themselves in lower maintenance costs: "If an act of God suddenly set one of those ivy-covered buildings down on our site, we would have it removed because we couldn't afford to operate...
...West. The big push is shattering the pattern. Because of the need for funds, schools are leaning upon government until there is scarcely a truly private college left in Canada. Provincial governments pick up nearly 40% of the operating costs of the colleges, the federal government about 20%, tuition 27%, and private sources the rest. Typical effect: the French Catholic University of Montreal will get its first layman rector, Rhodes Scholar Roger Gaudry, in June...
This new student-faculty cooperation is often directed at a target outside the college. City College professors agreed last month to excuse from classes students who were picketing Governor Rockefeller's office to protest his impending vector of CCNY's free tuition bill. At Ohio the professors are organizing a lobby to protest the state legislature's plans for reapportionment. The University of Wisconsin has its Committee to Restore People to Politics, organized by students and faculty to spread information about Vietnam...
...students came from all walks of Chinese life. All wore the same blue cotton clothes and ate the same food in the cafeteria. Most students walked to school or took the bus, though many had bicycles. There was no tuition and book fees ran somewhat under five dollars per year for the nationally standardized textbooks...