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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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