Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After holding the line fairly well during the inflationary 1970s, college tuition galloped ahead of inflation in every year of the 1980s. This was during the same decade that federal financial aid came under the Reagan budget...
...United Parcel Service gave out one semester's tuition to a lucky CCSU student at the end of the game. That kind of promotion is just what is needed to pack the fans into Briggs Cage--only UPS should agree to shelling just one month's tuition at Harvard...
...Prince Edward County's public schools had the lowest test scores in Virginia. But in the years since then, the public schools have made a gradual and remarkable recovery. Now Prince Edward County High School's student body is 62% black, 38% white. The tuition to attend the white private school (some 630 white students and six black) is now $2,495, and many white families have decided they can find a superior education (free) at the public schools. Even white families from surrounding counties are applying. Test scores for students in the public schools now approach the national average...
...pigs in the state's experiment with universal health care. Worse yet, they are being forced to pay a handful of private insurance companies for the privilege. In most cases, they are paying for it with financial aid funds provided by the taxpayers and intended for things such as tuition and books...
...information dealing with the setting of faculty salaries, financial aid and tuition were subpoenaed in the probe, which is investigating reports of collusion by the colleges. The subpoenaed records, say educators and lawyers, include almost all university financial documents...