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Monday, April 19, 1993
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Women's Recognition Program Discover A New World: Women's History"
Tuesday, April 20,1993 8:00 p.m. Big 8 Room, Kansas Union
Plan may lower costs
Reception following in the Malott Room, Kansas Union
Some universities study ideas to cut time to get degree
The Associated Press
"It's very simple," said S. Frederick Starr, president of Oberlin College "If I apply to Oberlin at $23,000 or Harvard at $25,000 a year, I'm applying for a $100,000 bachelor's degree. If I get through in three years, I have reduced my cost by 25 percent.
BOSTON — As the cost of a college diploma soars, some U.S. universities are considering reducing the amount of time it takes to get one.
The idea, cutting the length of an undergraduate education from four years to three, is about to be tested by the nation's largest public university system, and one school is ready to advertise it as an option.
"If my fourth year is spent working,
my salary will equal the price of
admission. Now we're up to 50
percent off."
Proponents say advances in technology mean students can learn at their own pace. For some, that can mean meeting degree requirements more quickly.
"We have so automatically assumed that all students should spend the same amount of time in college," said Stanford president Gerhard Casper. "Where is that set down in natural law?"
Advocates talk of encouraging high school students to take more college-level courses, streamlining educational requirements and lengthening the academic year.
The State University of New York already is planning to implement what Chancellor D. Bruce Johnstone prefers to call "the enhanced productivity of learning."
Actually, the time needed to get a bachelor's degree has been getting longer.
In a speech to presidents of all 64 SUNY campuses next weekend, Johnstone said he would tell them to begin testing various means to speed up the time it took to get a bachelor's degree.
Taxpayers and increasing $y_{n}$ ents and students themselves are becoming less and less willing to pay for what learning can cost," he said.
"We've put a number of impediments in front of them when they do this; residency requirements, prohibiting students to take more than a certain number of courses, making it hard to test out of certain subjects," said Richard Rosser, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.
But some denounce the idea of speeding up the college education as if it were an assembly line.
Nearly half of all students who complete undergraduate degrees take more than four years, 1990 U.S. Census figures show. Only 8 percent take less.
Spiraling tuition forces many students to take fewer than the full load of credits or hold part time jobs that interfere with classes. And budget cuts at public universities make it harder to get into crowded required courses in time to finish in four years.
The academy, a private high school set to open in September, will let seniors take college-level courses for credit they can apply toward a university diploma.
Some question whether a three-year degree is possible without better preparation, since universities and colleges increasingly must review material students should have learned in high school.
"I suppose if I had to come down on the side of five years versus the notion that it could be cut to three years, I would come down on five years," said Peter Schweich, executive director of Boston University Academy.
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