t ASHLAND A M ERICAN v, library fines and similar items. jcial appropriation whatever and only These items total about $25,000 an­ a very small fund from endowments. Extension fees: The extension nually. i work carried on by the university is Average fees paid annually by iall done on the fee basis and the students: In order to get at the aver­ age amount o f fees extracted from fees received cover over 75 per cent It each student by the unixersity, we o f the total expense involved. P R E S ID E N T D E L V E S INTO have added together the total amount is hoped that this percentage will be of the fees paid under the above gradually and consistently increased. S T U D E N T T U IT IO N schedule (with the exception o f the Restriction o f out o f state students student activities fee which some in the vigorous efforts that have people might regard as not proper been made by the administration in to include, although it is exacted of years past in enforcing the out-of- every student the same as other state tuition fee, and in raising the fees) and divided by the actual num­ standards o f the university, and also Try» T o Make Clear oa Que»tion* ber of students in actual attendance in relieving the tremendous pressure on the campus during the year. We o f attendance by excluding all non­ Regarding Coat* o f the Slate get an average o f $91.21. This residents, excepting the better class, means that the average student pays we have reduced our non-resident University at Eugene. to the university o f Oregon each attendance to 63 at present. It has year $91.21 in fees, not including been estimated that in the last four the student activities fee. The stu­ years we have prevented each year (By President Hall) dent activities fee is for the support from two to four hundred non-resi­ Owing to the act that the sugges- | of athletics, the student paper, and dent students from registering at tion has been made that the state similar student interests. If these the university. We have done this institutions o f higher learning might are added, it means that the aver- by two methods: By rigorous efforts meet their pressing immediate needs I age student pays to the university to enforce the tuition and by the en­ by an increase in student fees, it every year $109.46. It must be re­ forcem en t of the following rules: seems desirable that a complete membered that this is the average “ No student shall be admitted to the statement o f the fee system as it which means that some students university of Oregon as a transfer exists at the University of Oregon who are registered in the schools from another institution o f college should be made. I have attempted a that do not have a school fee and rank (above high school rank) who is short statement to the press, which, who happens to be taking courses ineligible to return to or continue however, seems to have been mis­ that do not charge course fees may in that institution.” The university understood. I am attempting, there­ pay considerably less, while others o f California has recently been rais- fore, to give a full and detailed registered in certain schools and i ing its entrance requirements with statement in order that the public taking certain courses pay very much 1 the result that many high school and the legislature may have the more. ¡graduates from California were in- facts exactly as they are. Comparison with other institutions I eligible for entrance. These began to The actual fee system at the on the Pacific coast and in the present their credentials in large University o f Oregon is quite com­ Northwest: When it is remembered numbers to the university o f Ore­ plicated. This is due to the fact that that over sixty per cent of our stu­ gon, but the above rule has been e f­ the University of Oregon has been dents are wholly or in part self- fective in keeping most o f them out. laboring under financial pressure of supporting, the administration feels Suggested legislation regarding the intensest kind for several years that it is unwise to further increase non-resident fees and special re­ The university authorities have seized the fees paid by students. This par­ quirements of non-resident students: every opportunity that presented it­ ticularly is true when our fees are In view of the fact that there seems self to increase student fees in every compared with those charged by to be much misunderstanding and way and at every opportunity that other state universities on the Pa­ some difficulty in enforcing non­ wns possible. The result is that a cific coast and in the Northwest. resident requirements, it is suggest­ large number of different kinds of The following table shows a compari­ ed that the legislature might appro­ fees have been levied at different son in the percentage of the total in­ priately pass a law fixing the non­ points which the administration re­ come that comes from student fees resident tuition for undergraduate garded as strategic. This has been and in the actual average payment students for all institutions o f higher done not because the university be­ per student o f student fees in the learning, providing some system of lieved in the policy that higher edu­ other state universities on the Pacific state supervision or rules for the cation should .finance itself, but be­ coast and in the Northwest. These collection of such fees, and prescrib­ cause of the extreme necessities of averages have to be determined upon ing that no student should be ad­ the case which have extended over a slightly different basis, because the mitted to the institutions of higher several years. figures from other schools are not learning from outside the state ex­ The fees at the University of obtainable except from the U. S. cept those who are eligible to return Oregon may be for convenience bureau of education and the bureau to or to continue in the institutions classed into four groups: Regular only has information covering total o f higher learning o f the state from fees, paid by every student; school fees collected by the university in­ which they come. This latter provi­ or major fees paid in addition to cluding summer session and exten­ sion would help raise the standard o f the general fees by students in cer­ sion fees. These fees have then been all o f our institutions and greatly re­ tain school; course fees charged by compared with the total income of duce the pressure o f increasing num­ certain courses; and non-resident the institutions in order to determine bers, and yet not keep out the really tuition fees. A summary o f these the percentage o f income that is re­ desirable students who might help fees follow: ceived from fees and have been di­ increase the actual standard o f stu­ General fees paid by everybody: vided by the total registration for the dent performance. General regis. fee per yr $10.50 year in order to determine the aver­ Infirmary fee, per year 0.00 » It seems quite clear that there age contribution per person. In Phy. Edu. fee, per year 6.00 , should be an exception in non-resi- calculating the fees from the Uni­ Building fee, per year 15.00 dent tuition in the case o f graduate versity o f Oregon the student ac­ Student Ac. fee, per year 15.75 students and students from foreign tivities fee was not included because Class taxes, per year .... 2.50 luntries. In any constructive pro­ similar fees were not included in the gram of research the presence o f statements from other universities. Total, per year $58.75 the best graduate students possible That explains the different average School or major fee: will be essential. We should encour of the University o f Oregon in these Anyone majoring in the four fol­ age rather than hamper the attend tables from that already given above lowing schools, in addition to the ance of such students. In regard to Those tables follow: gencrnl fees, pays each yenr the fee below indicated. Table Showing Percentage o f Total Income Derived fr o m Fees. School of Architecture and Allied Institution Total Income Total Fees Fees as a percent of Arts, t>er year $6p.00 1925-26 1925-26 total income School o f Business Administra­ $ 1,182,000 $ 285,063* 24.11 tion, per year .......................... 15.00 University o f Oregon ... 2,065,057 210,000 10.07 School o f Journalism, per yr 9.00 University of Wash 9.26S.833 1,162,564 12.43 School o f I jiw , per year 30.00 University o f Cal........... 58,000 5.42 Course fees: In addition to the University o f Idaho ...... 1,068,496 1 453,600 1 65.000 14,32 fees enumerated in the above two University o f Montana 520,189 1 50,000 9.61 groups, the university has established University of Nevada .... 1,412,774 i 74,125 ' 5.24 a large* number o f course fees.Fifty- University o f Arizona 84.50S.564 1 10.494.217 eight per cent of the courses offered 39 State Universities 12.41 ('Including building tax from stu­ by the University o f Oregon have foreign students. it ought to he the course fees which range from $1.50 dent body not included in our last policy of the state to encourage cor- a year to $30 a year. There is such a long list o f these thnt it does not aid Per Student. seem wise to print the list here. It Institution Total Fee# Fees per student must be remembered that these fees ure in addition to all the fees 1925-26 1925-26 enrollment University o f Oregon already mentioned. - 3 - >01 $ 285.063 $83.10 Non-resident fees. All students University of Wash 7.119 210,000 29.49* domiciled outside o f the state of University of ('al. 18.101 1.152,584 63.67 On 'p>n who are taking work at the University o f Idaho l. •_•:* 58.000 30.12 university o f Oregon pay in addi­ University o f Montana . 1 ’>00 65.000 41.93 tion to all other fees. $150 per year. University o f Nevada ; so 50.000 52.63 I’ immer session fees. The summer University o f Arizona 1.775 74.125 41.76 session fees at the university o f Ore­ 39 state universities 148.445 10,494.217 71.71 * * gon art* being rapidly advanced. In •Fee» must be underestimate .1 as 1 ---- — e h ■ ■■ ■■ 1 9 -1 the summer session fee was figures for the year 1923-24 show d a l and friendly relations and con- $10 for the summer. Since then it Washington to charge $81.99 per ztu- t..cts with all the different peoples has been $15 for the summer. This the Pacific. Both the peace and com ng year the summer session fee •Average all ---------- schools high . »Verity o f the Pacific coast de- -■ for — — will be $25 for non-resident and $20 a« com pared to Western schools, as i d upon the cultivation o f these for residents with an additional fee fees In the east amount to over contact«. The further development oi o f $10 for those* who attend the post $100 per student. Oregon is inextricably tied up with summer session. The $10 fee for The proportion o f total income de- t!.e growth o f trade upon the Pacific the post Session —as charged last -*vrd from student ehatges at the Therefore, it is very desirable that year. Course fees are also charged Univeraity o f Oregon is high partly eviry possible contact, and the dur.iif* the summer. because the fees themselves are ugh friendliest goad feeling should be The above fees do not, o f course, and partly because the IIN income from e t.ibli. h- d between the people o # .JW I----- iuc'.ide returnable deposits for mili­ ate is relatively low as compar- tr*-gur and the peoples o f the Pa- tary uniforms, k e y s , breakage, d with that o f other institutions, « Tie Ocean. charges for medicine at the dispens- ud it has no federal income or ape- Danger o f relying upon increase WRITES ABOUT U.-O. HANDICAP Imposes T oo Heavy Eniollment in student fees to meet the needs of | the university: It has been argued ! that a small addition to the student fees will not keep away worthy or desirable students. The answer to this argument is that while that may have been true while our fees were around forty or fifty dollars a year, it is very doubtful if it is true now that we have, by this same process of argument brought them up to $109. The danger is that two years from now, if the pressure continues to increase, the same argument will be made again, and so on, with the re­ sult that the principle o f democracy in education will gradually be elim­ inated. When oemparing these charges with those o f other institu­ tions in this section o f the country, it seems that the university o f Ore­ gon has already been forced to im­ post too heavy a burden on its stu­ dents, and that we should seek ways to cut it down, rather than to in­ crease it. Arnold Bennett Hall, presi­ dent o f the University o f Oregon. , man who was starting on his initial | trip. 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