Word: tuitions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sheer numbers alone, the trend is extraordinary. At the University of Colorado, attendance at continuing-education-department courses has jumped from about 29,000 in 1971 to 41,000 in 1975. California's community college network, which is tuition-free for in-state residents, catered to a staggering 1,265,000 adults last year-one out of every eight adults in the state-a 50% increase over just five years ago. Nationwide last year, 5.5 million adults over age 25-about 50% of total college enrollment-took courses for credit...
Faculty administrators are also becoming alarmed by the tuition and related fees they impose on students to come to Harvard. They are wary of destroying the socio-economic diversity for which the University is supposedly striving. Harvard's "middle class" students already come from families far wealthier than the average American family and administrators are justifiably worried about exacerbating this disparity...
...Arts and Sciences announced that the entire undergraduate body would have to pay $4 per person per hour in class so that "Those kids don't get the idea that they're getting something for nothing." When reminded that undergrads pay close to Reggie Jackson's salary for tuition. the dean replied, "Well shucks, every school has a tuition, we just want to stress the fact that Harvard is different from all those other cut-rate institutions...
...cost of attending Harvard is a very significant factor in people's decision to apply or to come here," Fox said last May, adding, "We've decided not to let the tuition go up unless it's absolutely mandatory for the University." Fox could not be reached for comment last night...
UMASS at HARVARD--First rule of predicting: Remember to whom you pay your tuition. Harvard 16, UMass...