Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other private university leaders expressed deep misgivings about the tax rollback plan. "We're certainly tuition-driven," said Boston College Vice President Margaret A. Dwyer, who was fearful that the college could lose many potential students if the state shut off the scholarship...
...Harvard gets all but five dollars of the tuition from women students," WCRG member Jill Casid says. "Radcliffe is not equipped to shoulder the full burden of creating a women's center. Harvard has got to take at least 75% of the (financial) responsibility...
...Meantime, the days of bulging classrooms are long gone. The 1965-75 baby bust led to a 10% dip in the number of college-age students in the 1980s; the head count will plummet a further 25% by the mid-1990s. The ability of institutions to simply crank up tuition and fees has also hit a ceiling. Last spring Princeton scaled back a projected 6.9% hike in tuition, room and board to 6.7%, leaving a still daunting annual bill per student of $20,498. "We used to view tuition as a tithe paid by grateful parishioners," says Northwestern President Arnold...
Rosovsky also defended rising tuition, stating that over the years, the average annual cost of an American college education has continued to correspond roughly to that of a medium-priced car. He pointed to greatly increased student services as part of the cause of higher costs...
...spells doomsday for UMass," she said. "This is reality. I know I'm going to have a big problem if the tuition goes up by $1000. A lot of people I know won't come back...