Word: tuition
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Universities have also faced increasing opposition from students and government officials for perennially increasing tuition costs at a significantly greater rate than inflation...
...midst of increasing public wariness of colleges' financial practices, the Justice Department last summer began an investigation into alleged anti-trust violations at 56 of the nation's top universities. The government is reportedly investigating whether colleges collude in setting tuition and financial aid packages...
...Tuition at Princeton University will continue to climb at a rate of 6.4 percent, the same as 1989-'90. And MIT announced yesterday that its tuition would go up 7.1 percent, only slightly lower than last year's 7.2 percent...
Cornell University and Yale University are the only two members of the Ivy League that have announced plans toincrease the rate at which tuition grows. Cornellofficials said that that tuition will rise between7.1 and 8.6 percent, up from its 6.9 rate lastyear. And yesterday Yale announced plans to raisetuition by 8.4 percent, its highest jump in atleast the last four years...
...Tuition rates have risen faster than inflationbecause all of our major expense items--facultysalaries, student financial aid, libraryacquisitions and facility maintenance--have beenrising faster than inflation," said ColumbiaUniversity Provost Jonathan R. Cole