Word: tuitions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter Dean Rosovsky will release next month to all Faculty members on the Faculty's 1975-76 budget will probably propose an increase in undergraduate tuition of at least $200, Robert E. Kaufmann '62, assistant dean of the Faculty for financial affairs, said yesterday...
Kaufmann said the exact tuition rise depends on "whether or not enough savings can be made" in current Faculty expenses "to balance or hold down the budget" rather than charge more from students...
Kaufmann said that Rosovsky's "feeling is that tuition is the wrong place to start" to eliminate the Faculty's deficit and so will institute measures that will not affect academic programs' expenses...
...other city runs a huge university system, let alone one that costs virtually nothing for undergraduates to attend. While tuition at most public universities, including New York State's, amounts to at least several hundred dollars a year, an undergraduate at the City University of New York pays a mere $110 in fees. CUNY has a splendid history of helping innumerable indigent students become leaders in business. Government and professions. But today, with an enrollment of more than 265,000, CUNY costs $595 million a year. The city, which pays 45% of CUNY's budget, has trimmed its payment this...
Another solution would be to transfer CUNY to the state, which would charge tuition, raise educational standards and close overlapping facilities. In addition to a free education, less affluent students who belong to SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge) receive a stipend averaging $30 a week. The state education department recently complained that SEEK students were not learning fast enough and were taking dubious courses, such as Caribbean religion and education and the Third World. Says Savas: "This is a very expensive way of achieving remedial education...