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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 07:57:28 CST
- From: <U38026@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <93012.075728U38026@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: misc.education,uic.org.the-student
- Subject: Re: What Students Can Do About TUITION!
- References: <93005.222738U38026@uicvm.uic.edu>
- <1993Jan06.045056.26994@eng.umd.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan06.045056.26994@eng.umd.edu>, clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
- says:
- >
- > I was watching a C-SPAN coverage of Harvard's president, Neil Rudenstein,
- >giving a speech to the National Press Club. It seems that he claimed that
- >tuition rises are not entirely unfounded. If I recall, he said that back
- >in the fifties and sixties, fees and such increased at something like 5%
- >a year, even though many people thought that fees never changed much
- >during that period. The reason, he claims, is that salaries rose at
- >a comparable rate during that same time. However, while tuition is
- >rising faster than inflation in the eighties and nineties, salaries have
- >not kept up, and so it is more difficult for families to keep up, and
- >that certain expenditures from universities (computers, etc.) have increased
- >in prices faster than inflation.
- >
- > I'm sure he has a more thorough version of this speech written down
- >somewhere.
- >Given that I have little data on the subject, I can't really make comments on
- >it.
- >
- >--
- >Charles Lin
- >clin@eng.umd.edu
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- Well, I here at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) tuition has
- risen 346% since 1980. While the consumer price index (the indicator
- that represent the price of staples like milk,bread,flour,etc.) has
- risen 50%. Yes, and real wages have went down. It's not a matter of
- the cost of education but who are the people who control our
- institutions. Here at UIC, there is constant expansion of new buildings
- and administrative control of Chicago land research projects. It is not
- the cost of educating the students that is problem, but the interest and
- drive of the university to remain a Research I university at all costs.
- Less than 18% of the total budget for UIC goes towards instruction.
- It's up to the students to fight for their educational rights. The
- students need to get back their parents tax dollars and organize to make
- their universities accountable to them.
-
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- If you have any questions, comments, or like sources of information send
- me mail at U38026@uicvm.uic.edu.
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- "What good is it, if a country should have all the knowledge of
- science and history, and only a few have access to the knowledge."
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- "An affordable and qualitative education is a right, not a privilege."
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