Tuition up, aid down at universities nationwide
Students forced to pay more for less
(AP) Public colleges arc
hitting students with the big
gest tuition Increases in n dec
ade, giving less scholarship aid
to pav for it and offering fewer
and morecrowded classes
Elementary and seconcfarv
school funding largely was pro
tec ted us legislators struggled
Ibis summer to close budget
gaps in more than to states, but
public: university campuses
were not so lucky
A 50-state survey by The Ns
sociated Press shows that, n.i
tionwide, slate higher educ a
tion appropriations for fiscal
1002 total an estimated .$35.7
billion, virtually unchanged
from the S35 5 billion spent In
all 50 states in 1091,
Nine Western and Southern
state’s that.weathered the rvc.es
sion better than most are boost
ing appropriations by at least 5
percent But 17 others are low
ering appropriations, and 24
si,lies ,irc raising them by less
than fi percent not enough,
in many cases, to prevent pro
grain inis and higher student
fees
Stale colleges across the
country are deferring mainlen
ame. limiting or freezing fact)I
iv pay hikes, cutting bai k on li
brary. ( omptiler and researi It
budgets, and m some eases, lay
trig'off non tenured teachers
and administrators
In at least 21 stales, puhlit
college tuitions are headed up
in double digits, the biggest in
crease since 1 tin2. when run
ayy ay inflation sent tuition and
fees a! font year ptildii institu
tions tip an average of 20 per
cent:
• tuitions are up t() peri ent to
$2,271 a year at the I'mversity
of California system after a 11
percent reduction in its state
appropriation Kates are 10 per
cent to JO percent higher at
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Students at San Diego State
take fee issue to the streets
SAN lhim ;() (AIM Not .since Vietnam have students .it
S.in Diego St.lie i Diversity mart lied, i hunted and wav eil li.m
tiers so passionately
Their cause7 We just want a proper education.' said
Merck Kindling, a i'l-year old sophomore
Students on the normally c|uiet. predominantly commuter
c ampus have been stunned by a 20 pen cut fee increase,
prompted by a Sib ti million budget c ut
One out of every H) class sis lions was eliminated About
• M) [iart time instructors were laid oil An estimated 1,100
students at the already overcrowded university failed to gel
into a single c lass they need to graduate, and at least 1 '.IHHI
of the IS.(Mill students enrolled lulled to receive one or more
of the classes they sought, olfic lals said
Pile feeling oil rumpus is Outrage.' said I milling, who ap
plied lor five c lasses this fall, but got only one I bis semes
ter at San Diego Stale is going to he explosive
Students vented anger over the impending cuts with pro
test inarches last spring
The campus's turmoil is the most visible sign of statewide
higher education cuts imposed in July to help erase (.alitor
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