Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boost in tuition charges in private colleges to meet the full cost of education would be "ill-considered," Robert F. Goheen, president of Princeton University, declared in his 1958 annual report...
While endorsing the principle of long-term loans, Goheen said that no Princeton student is ever likely to pay twice the present tuition. No student intent on learning should be denied a Princeton education because of financial need, he added...
...Three billion dollars," predicts Professor Seymour Harris, "will have to come from increased tuition rates in the next decade, if universities are to survive." How Harvard and the rest can meet this demand, with inflation shrinking endowment assets at the same time that alumni contributions diminish, is a problem Harris has attempted to solve in his plan for a long term student loan program...
Harris' plan is simply this: each student who needs aid would borrow $1,000, one half of which would go towards his current needs, the other five hundred towards tuition. The financiers would be either private business, such as insurance companies, or hopefully the federal government. If this program were taken up and handled properly, Harris says that "private institutions of higher learning could increase their tuition by $400 to $600 in five years." Such a program also would make doubling of current teacher salaries possible...
...that the landgrant colleges "seem to want not only a virtual monopoly of state and local tax power but also of Federal tax money." Although Harris does not oppose "some increase in Federal aid," he noted that "the Federal Government has serious responsibilities that cannot be otherwise financed," whereas tuition can be financed in other ways...