Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kevin C. Wehr, a third-year sociology student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and president of the Teaching Assistant Association, agrees that their union, the AFL-CIO, was a powerful weapon in recent contract negotiations that resulted in tuition wavers for many graduate students...
...tell where all that tuition goes? A much larger chunk than one might expect flows into supplying undergraduates with bookshelves and pillows (yes, those pillows). Harvard spends a tremendous amount on the furniture its students trip over on the way through each other's walk-throughs. And although they replace the items only every 25 to 50 years, perhaps they still spend too much...
...president and the provost have also indicated Harvard's obligation to exercise "fiscal prudence," to maintain high academic standards while avoiding significant increases in tuition. These fiscal responsibilities are important, to be sure. But Harvard's primary income is not from tuition, and its primary expenses are not service employee wages. We must reevaluate the priorities of our University community, and at the same time, keep some perspective. Harvard spends plenty of money on wine and cheese at the Faculty Club. Is this fiscally prudent? In this bastion of wealth, why are presently-low service worker wages considered some outrageous...
...replacement, 32-year-old Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology Matina S. Horner, presided over a college stripped both of its students and its resources--the 1971 agreement gave Harvard all of the income Radcliffe collected from tuition and its endowment. Radcliffe officials were increasingly unsatisfied with their lack of control. As then-chair of Radcliffe's Board of Trustees Susan S. Lyman '49 said, "When you fold your corporation into another corporation, it's over--you eliminate any power you have...
...landmark "non-merger merger" gives Harvard control of Radcliffe's daily operations, including the housing of female undergraduates. Under the agreement, Radcliffe also cedes to Harvard all of the income collected from tuition and its endowment...