Word: tuitions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Maryland was not alone in plotting new directions. Last week the University of Chicago, which has long given short shrift to teacher training, announced that teachers, and students preparing to teach, would henceforth only have to pay half tuition...
Clear the Yard. Like Rome, of course, Athens was not built in a day. During its first years, S.U.I.'s entire faculty consisted of three professors. Its course ran only 16 weeks, and its tuition was set at the ludicrous figure of $4. Even after it inherited the state capitol building when the government moved to Des Moines, it barely managed to scrape along. In 1858 it closed its doors for two years because of lack of funds, and in 1862 it was still facing such financial problems as authorizing the janitor to "purchase a dog at a cost...
...role of the Corporation can best be seen in the way it handles the Faculty's budget. The Dean of the Faculty prepares the budget for all department, supervising the use of tuition income, interest from Faculty endowments, and the preparation of all sub-budgets. The Administrative Vice-President submits the final result to the Corporation in April. For a month or so, that group will examine all budgets pruning here and there. the only time that the Corporation has asked the Dean to revise his statement was in 1933 and the depression was responsible for this unusual interference...
...first president ran the University on an annual budget of 175 pounds, 55 of which were Dunster's own salary. Tuition then was about a pound and a third per year, but the student had to pay and additional three pounds when he received his degree. Whatever capital was available in those days could be let out at eight percent...
Most important, however, is the fact that costs have risen greatly and that investment returns, which made up 64 percent of Harvard's income in 1845, today amount to only 26 percent, Currently, tuition comprises 22 percent, and "gifts for immediate use" account for another fifth...