Word: tuitions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student demonstrations against Harvard financial ownings in South Africa-affiliated companies only touch a symptom of a more profound problem. That is, is it justifiable for a university with a $1.6 billion endowment to invest most of that enormous endowment in stocks, while continuing to charge students ever-increasing tuition fees...
...frequently said that students' tuition fees do not cover the price of a Harvard education, and that therefore students shouldn't complain about having to pay $4000 or $5000 per year. But this argument ignores the fact that the Harvard Corporation could use more of its enormous endowment to offset the costs of students' educations, thus lowering tuition fees. Why is it necessary to invest so much money in stocks, instead of paying for education? A university, being a non-profit organization, should be more concerned with providing quality service to its students, than with earning dividends...
...cares of office in the chambers of the Chicken Ranch, as the place is known from a Depression custom in which local farmers traded live fowl for the favors of the girls. Postpubescent lads, like the winning Aggie football team, matriculate to manhood here under expert tutelage. The prevailing tuition fee is $3. "That's back in the days of Roosevelt nooky, not Carter coffee," says one character who clearly intends to hold the line on inflation...
...means of combining conservative philosophy with programs of the welfare state, Will cited tuition tax credits to middle-income families. Not only would this maintain government aid to education, it would also guarantee freedom of choice in education, Will said...
...general outlines of Harvard's portfolio are set by the treasurer, who receives the advice of the Overseers Financial Policy Committee. That committee looks over all areas of University funding, like budgets, tuition and endowments. It performs the basic functions of all overseers--overseeing the running of the University, advising and discussing, but it has little real power...