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...these days of rising faculty salaries and falling federal funding, setting college tuition rates can be a sticky business...
Rises in annual tuition costs nationally have outpaced inflation in recent years, and experts say the trend shows few signs of slowing down...
...undergraduate paid $6525 for tuition, room and board. Student tuition made up 22.8 percent of the University income. Ten years later, each student paid $16,145 for a year at Harvard, and tuition paid 26.7 percent of total University expenses. Tuition has recently risen between 3 and 5 percent over the concurrent inflation rate. comparing the rise in tuition to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures national inflation for a breadbasket of consumer goods, is inappropriate. Instead, they say, the tuition hikes should be measured against the Higher Education Price Index (HEPI), which guages increases in university expenses...
University administrators and national researchers attribute the shift to reliance on tuition income and the dramatic yearly increase in tuition prices to a variety of sources, ranging from the high cost of library acquisitions, building maintenance and laboratory equipment to a desire to become more selective by becoming more expensive...
...Elster, a college graduate and a banker. They have the first child in the third generation of the Forrester family to receive a college degree. Steven Elster, 27, is finishing medical school. He is being supported by his parents, who are also paying for half his medical-school tuition. He has every expectation of rising quickly into the upper middle class and being better off than his parents. It is the widening gap between Steven and his cousins -- and the absence of the middle ground that their parents staked out with such relative ease -- that is most disturbing...