Word: tuitions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down in Oakland seven years ago. Under the chilly scrutiny of the Oakland Council of Churches, they started holding revivals and set up three schools-the Academy of Christian Education, Patten College and Patten Seminary. Students joined up at the rate of 300 a year, paying $20 a month tuition, slipping on bright school sweaters with big block Ps, and learning the school yells. Sample, adopted from the old "Give 'em the ax": "Give 'em the Word, the Word, the Word." Some paid $5 for the academy's first and only yearbook, The Portal, a tome which...
Colleges fearing Federal control say they would rather increase their efforts to get endowments and money from private sources. Gifts to colleges have dropped considerably in recent years in proportion to tuition and operating costs, but many educators hope that public response to new appeals will make Federal aid unnecessary...
...sliding tuition scale, as advocated by Seymour Harris, is probably one of the most radical solutions. Under this proposal, each student pays what he can: the rich man pays for the poor man, and the middle man pays for himself. A rather obvious hitch has been pointed out: admissions boards would be bidding for wealthy students...
Rising costs and expanded plants have left the nation's universities with serious deficits. Most schools have upped their tuition, making students carry part of the load. Some colleges have cut their staffs. But a sizable dollar shortage still remains, and to meet it many universities are going directly into business...
...obvious steps for an institution haunted by the threat of bankruptcy-reducing facilities and raising tuition-pose alarming consequences. The serious fund shortage has already left many institutions no choice but to lower their educational standards by deleting courses, discharging teachers, and postponing plans for expansion or modernization. Raising tuitions, already at their historical peaks, in a time when less money is available for scholarships, means that more men will be kept out of college. Last year the President's Commission on Higher Education reported that for every man in college there is already another man, of the same...