Word: tuitions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent years other tremors have shaken the city's school system. After high school, the upwardly mobile but poor New Yorker went on to the City University of New York (CUNY), which sported free tuition upon admission. It wasn't the Ivy League, but a CUNY education was a good one, and it took grades to get into one of the CUNY schools, like Brooklyn College or City College. In the 1970s, the pressures of an egalitarian society brought on the policy of open admissions, which guaranteed a place in one of the CUNY colleges to anyone graduating from...
Collins keeps her pupils for only one or two years of intensive work, then encourages their parents to send them to parochial schools rather than the problem-ridden public schools. Although many parents are hard-pressed to pay the requested $80-per-month tuition. Collins has a waiting list of 150 pupils. She would like to expand Westside but refuses to apply for any federal grants. Says she: "I don't want any experts telling me what's good for these kids or telling me how to teach." Meanwhile. Westside's rigor is apparently as attractive...
...classes in self-defense. Nearly 1,000 called to ask about a special six-hour self-defense course offered by Mary Conroy, 33, assistant professor of physical education at California State University in East Los Angeles. She only had space for 67 students, each of whom paid $22.50 in tuition, but she promises a repeat course in January. Conroy, 5 ft. 4 in. tall and a springy 104 Ibs., sounds like a boot camp instructor drilling raw recruits. "Ready, gouge! Ready, gouge!" she shouted one afternoon last week. "Now follow with the knee in the groin...
Harvard and other Ivies have not experienced this decline because if "you are going to pay a Harvard-sized tuition you want to pay for the brand name," he said...
...added that the group is currently negotiating with the B.C. administration on an increase in the amount of financial aid available to B.C. students. The undergraduate government will also ask B.C. to make a statement insuring that no students will be forced to withdraw because of the higher tuition, Murphy added...