(Iowa City, Iowa), 1969-03-05
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University Facing General Trend of Rising Tuitions Ilin LaU"'1 By PENNY MAHER sion divisian and the laboratory schaols, and room and board rates are rising &0 mecllan charges were $360 for resldeJi;s the legislature IS • serious problem am dent. In the stl". SI.t. R.p. Edw.rd , Mahler In view of Gov. Robert Ray's recom such as Unlverlity High School. rapidly and so often that today's puhlic at state schools and $905 for nonresideots. fronting private schools In Iowa. Tuitkn MelVinslev {D-Iow. City , Hid Saturd.y menoations for appropriations to Iowa's According to Leonard R. Brcka. con college student is paying about 23 per 'n com". rison with tuition feel In oth figures lor private lCbools in Iowa in 1966 thaI legillatorl believe the 1111. hIS I tate universities. the future oC the Uni troller and University secretary, tuition cent more for bis education than a stu er Big I. Ichooll, the University rinks ranged from high! 0( Sl.'IVO at. Grinnell rHpGftsil>ility to provide for t .. sIa" I... seems a Iiltle dark, not only in makes up approximately 20 per cent of the dent in J 963. generilly in the middle. At tho Univlrsi<y CoUege. $1,5 at Cornell College and $1,- stIMion •• ~s join the Ihe area of capital improvements, but also present operating budget of the University The survey notes that budget demands of Michigan .nd Ohio Stat. University. 550 at cae CoUege to lows 0( $250 at Ells He said that be did not feel the legia only work in the area of tuition. and state appropriations make up about are up for review in a majority of states tho rat.s I,. conslderlbly hl\lher t han worth Junior College. $1,000 at Wartburg lators cOCl5idered the bill for aid to stu ,vail able .t The Slate Board of Regents has request 75 per cent. The rest of the money comes this year. If demands are not met, the her.. Michigln rat.. are $480 per Yllr College and $1,000 at Upper Iowa Col dents attending private schools as meet· ed $240 million for operating expenses at from federal contracts. universities and colleges making the de for residenh Ind $1,540 for nonresident.; lege. ing this J'e6PDII ibility; they were impl)' its five institutions - including the three If, in the ut>-COming biennium, the state mands will have to secure additional Ohio Slat. tuition r.tel .re $495 for rill Legislators are presently considering a recognizing that th schools have I universities - during the next biennium . legislature appropriates what the regents funds at the expense of the student - as din" Ind $1,095 for nonresidenh. bill that would allow aid to Iowa students problem and need help .. The schools are the Un iversity of Iowa, have requested , tuition would make up may become the case here at the Univer Tuition rates at the University of n· attendiJ.g private coUeges in the state. "I'd say that it is my hope that the Iowa State University, the University of approximately 17 per cent of the budget effect, sity. linois and the University of Wiscoosin are This bill would. In give students legislature will seriou I), considnr the fp. Northern Iowa, the Iowa Braille and Sight and the appropriations would make up The University tuition rate at present somewhat lower than those here. At in Iowa the option of attending a public quests of the Board of Regents and act aving School and the Iowa School for n around 80 per cent. H, however. the re ($370 per year for residents, $1,000 for linois, res;denls are charged $282 and non· or private school regardless of cosl to impiem'mt them ill a fashion that'l the Dear. Ray has recommended that gents' requests are not met. the difference nonresidents in the College of Liberal resident: are charged $862; at Wisconsin. In the palt. II hIS been I generlllv Ie· responsive to the needs 0( higher educa only $182.7 million be appropriated for the between appropriations and operational Arts) compares favorably with national ,esidents pay $3SO and nonresidents pay cepted f.ct thaI the .11" leglslilure hit tion. Iy concern is that the tate ml't'! ,ilate schools. necessities may have to be made up by median charges in the 1968-69 period. Ac had • rlSponsibllity to provide for public its responsibility. 2nd it docs not ml'l'l University Pres. Howard R. Bowen has a rise in tuition. $I.ISO. cording to the NASULGC survey, these High tuition has Tec'ently been ci.ed by education .. I rusonabl. cost to III ,hi- it by raising luitJon." Iczvinsky 5aid. suggested that, to make up the difference, Students across the country are facing 'the University could cut back on staff, cut the problem of rising tuition. A J968-69 Iback on programs or reduce enrollment, survey of student costs made by the Na· bu t that the only substantial income in tional Association of State Universities and crease would be in raised tuition. In one Land Grant ColleJ(es (NASULGC) showed speech, Bowen said that in-state tuiuon that four·fifths of the nation's state col W5UI might have to be raised as much as $500 leges and uni versities have incrPased their per year for each student to compensate 8allrOOlll fees in the last year alone. lor a lack of appropriations. The NASUlGC findings also indicated Thll tuition incom. would be used for that a student In the Unll!d States Is ,per.ting .xp.nlts, such .. 1111rill, paying an Iverlge $1,160 this year to be 'Dai1 Iowa equipment replac:tment, utililies, main educated at the state college or univer Serving the University of Iowa and the People of Iowa CitV Itnlnc. Ind repairs. Tuition funds .r. sity in his home state. The oul-of-stat ••Iu· ,Iso used to oparat. all 10 of the Unlv.r $1,720. dent peys an average Est~blished in J868 10 cents a CODY Associated Press lased Wire and Wirephoto Iowa City, Iowa 52240-Wednesday, March 5. t .ity colleges, the L1brlry. the Physicil This means that tuition, student fees Plant, !,dmlnistrative oHi~l, the .xlen. * * * Likely Rise Nixon Says U.S. -In Tuition Will Not Tolerate Protested A student organization calling Itself the Ad Hoc Committee for the Prevention of Vietnam Step-up J Tuition Increase has been formed tAl pro. lest the threatened tuition increase at the WASIlINGTON VII - Pra;idcn( Nixon menl, ","ml to hive 'evoled oH," bul LDiversity. declared Tucsda)' night thaI the United II chlnging hour by hour. The gl'Oup set up a table Tuesday in States "will not tolernte" a contmuation Nixon said the SOviet Union, an EJ the Union Gold Feather Lobby where In of stepped-up ViOl Cong and N<rth Vilt· Gennan ally, h toid the ba lIIrested persons could 'btain post cards namese attack in SoU1h Vietnam. moot of the bioi ted city will jcopar~il 'and write their objections to Guv. Robert II the enemy contlnu increased mili· relations with the West . D. Ray's allocations for state 6Chools. tary pressure, Nixon warned, there will be "At this moment ...1 believe that t h (' Post cards will be available from 9:<'0 an appropriate U.S. response. Soviet. Unlon does not want to have t h r 1m. to 2:30 p.m. today through Friday He reported thal his Journey to Europe iluatioo in W Berlin h atOll up to lll\' :n the Guld Feather Lobby, and ~ ' :ri ng has created "8 new relationship of (rust pou. whet'e it would jeopard ize more im ~e dinner hO'lr tonight in the dining halls and confidence" with allied gt vmunerts portant n jlot.ialioos at th hi~ 11'\'el or CUl'rier, Burge, Quadrangle B\ld Hill - but his account of the situation on that with the United State "he Mid Irest dormitories. continent soon gave way to a stalemlrt of On the Middle EIII, Nixon I a III his The post cards will be forwarded by the intent In the Vietnamese collC1ict. iournty 10 Ii"e .1II.d nalionl In Europe lommitt.ee to Ray. Nixon discussed fOl' igo policy at an produced ",ubll,nll.1 progr.u" low.rd • Universi ty Pres. How.rd R. Bowen has hour-long While H()use new conrerence, conllrenc, 10 rlSol". th, ,ituatlon .xislln!! •aid tuition might have 10 be raised as planned a a report on the European betwe,n Ilrl.t .nd Arab nltion •• much as $500 if the bwg.1 Is nol increal journey but punctuated with discussion of He said a a result of hi' COnflTl'l1C 'S, tel. the war in Southeast Asia the p!16itions of the [jruted ~t( &lId those According to Lewis Ofslein, A3, Des on Th. President gave no Indicilian of Ihl of Britain and France are clOl'l'r than he Iloines, one of the founders of the com Nixon Reports European Trip raspons. he might order if Cammunllt fore. "We have had ncouraJ:int: talks" wilh [ lIIittee. the cards are being sent to Ray, Presidenl Nixon faced a large crowd of reporters, television televised from tho Elst Roam of th. Whll. House. ass.ult. on South Vietnamlll cllits and . rather than tp individual legislators, "be cameras and the nation Tuesday night as he aullined his recent - AP Wirephoto bases art m.inl.in.d or acc.lerlt.d. Ih Soviet amboSfIctor 10 Wu hington. \I!< atoly f' Dool'yniJ\, on Ihe ullj t, "'011 ause he's a focal point and we hope he five·nalion trip 1o Europe.