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With college costs rising at more than twice the rate of inflation and with the Reagan Administration's pruning of financial aid, paying tuition bills has become more difficult than ever for many students. And as financing a college education becomes more difficult, many administrators and education lobbyists say they are worried that the changes are curtailing the educational possibilities for both lower- and middle-class students...
...unofficial study that has not been released, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) found that a "small increase in tuition proportionally causes a drop in low income--minority student enrollment," says UNCF Vice President Alan H. Kirschner...
Direct expenses billed by the University Tuition $11,390 College Facilities Fee $835 Room $ 1,885 Board $ 2,035 Sub-Total $ $16,145 Personal expenses including books and supplies $ 1,255 TOTAL RESIDENT BUDGET...
This argument is at the core of Bennett's indictments of higher education. Harvard's endowment skyrockets but so does tuition, he says. At the same time the quality of undergraduate education has dropped across the country, he says. Bennett uses these points to argue that colleges and universities are a big business that no longer delivers on the product...
Nonetheless, some colleges are making efforts to trim budgets and pass along the savings. Penn hopes to save $12 million next year by closer management of employee benefits. Cornell is reducing operating expenditures across the board by 2%, allowing it to post a 7% tuition increase, its smallest in 14 years. A few institutions are dropping secondary programs. Georgetown, for example, has eliminated one-third of its graduate programs in the past five years and recently decided to close its dental school. "We can't be all things to all students," says Treasurer George Houston...