Word: tuitions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memo from Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano to President Carter was urgent. "We must move quickly if we are to seize the initiative on this very hot issue," warned Califano. The issue: tuition aid for middle-income families with children in college, a form of relief that has become increasingly popular on Capitol Hill with campus costs accelerating at dizzying rates-up 77% from 1967 to 1976- and voters appealing for help. With two different plans already under consideration by Congress, each offering aid in the form of direct tax credits, which Carter opposes, the President heeded...
...over the $1 billion that Carter originally hoped to earmark for such aid in fiscal 1979. "Increasingly, middle-income families, not just lower-income families, are being stretched to their financial limits by the growing costs of a university or college education," said Carter. In 1978, he pointed out, tuition, room and board will average $4,800 a year at private colleges and $2,500 at public universities...
Those same officials are quick to point out that the rate of tuition, room and board increases has declined steadily from the 12.5 per cent mark...
...increase, which amounts to a $400 boost in tuition and a $100 hike in room and board costs, will bring the total term bill fee to $7500. The fact that the Corporation wanted a bigger increase--but still settled for what administrators call "the minimum needed to break even"--is hardly a consolation...
...Corporation's recent decision to boost next year's tuition, room and board fees by a total of $500 isn't going to leave the folks on the other end of the phone jumping...