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Harvard will set its 1988-89 tuition rate in the next few weeks, university officials said yesterday...
...national tuition average "is going to be again a few points in excess of inflation," said Michael O'Keefe, president of the Consortium for the Advancement of Private Higher Education. "The upward pressure on college costs is going to continue," he said...
Several of the nation's leading universities have already announced price hikes for the 1988-89 school year. Total charges at Columbia University will rise to $18,132, a 5 percent jump over last year's figure. The University of Chicago will raise its tuition by 6.7 percent to $12,930, Princeton will up its tuition by 6.6 percent to $13,380, and fees at Brown will increase by 6.9 percent...
...previous years, Education Secretary William J. Bennett has blasted the nation's colleges and universities for being "greedy" and for encouraging their students to apply for federal loans and grants to offset tuition hikes...
...vast amount [of the tuition increases] is tomatch inflation affecting college costs," said D.Kent Halstead, an economist for ResearchAssociates, a Washington-based public policythink-tank. "Public schools certainly aren'tgreedy and a whole bunch of smaller privateuniversities have to raise tuition fees just tocover their costs...