CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 8, 1995
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Monthly tuition bills provide new option
By Josh Yancey Kansan staff writer
A new way to pay tuition at the University of Kansas could be welcomed by students who have a hard time producing enough money to pay fees all at once.
Starting this spring, students will have the opportunity to pay tuition by installment, in which four monthly payments are made in the spring and fall semesters, and two monthly payments are made in the summer session.
KU students who choose to use the plan will pay a $25 fee a semester. Fall semester payments will be due on the first of the month from July through October, and spring payments will be made from December through March. Students can join the plan at any time as long as prior charges are paid.
The concept has been kicked around at KU for several years, said Lindy Eakin, associate vice chancellor for administration and finance. He said the plan was made possible through a partnership with Academic Management Services, an East Providence, R.I., financial company.
Generally, tuition is due in full before classes start each semester. The total bill can reach almost $4,000 for nonresidents and $2,000 for residents, and unless the balance is charged with a credit card, students must produce the money or be dropped from their classes.
The advantage of installment payments is the lack of interest charges.
Here, you've got the option of the $25 fee or the 18 percent interest
charge with a credit card," Eskin said
Pat La Shier, assistant comptroller, said the $25 fee was the lowest that Academic Management Services charged to any school in the program.
Because the payments would be made to a company outside the University, students on the plan probably would not receive a refund if they dropped out of school after making several payments.
"We would think that someone would be fairly certain that they were sticking around before they signed up for the plan." Eakin said.
More information on the plan will be handed out at the Enrollment Center when spring enrollment begins this fall.
The University of Missouri has had an installment program for two years. Students who enroll for the fall semester, for example, make payments in July, August, September, October and November.
Brenda Schaffer, accountant to Kansas State University, said K-State had offered an installment program several years ago but had since given it up.
"There just wasn't enough student interest at the time," she said. "Maybe it wasn't publicized enough. Now, everyone wants everything in installment form again."
Some KU students welcome the opportunity to relieve the burden of making one big payment.
Jennna Bresnahan, Lawrence
innier, said she would use the plan.
"I would appreciate it," Bresnahan said. "I think my parents would appreciate it."
Prospects for Ph.D.s are bleak, speaker says
Kansan staff writer
By Novelda Sommers
Graduate education in America is facing a crisis.
That was Michael Berube's message last night as the University of Illinois associate professor opened a two-day symposium on issues in graduate education.
Many universities are hiring fewer full-time faculty while churning out Ph.D.s, flooding a decreasing job market, so that some doctoral degree recipients may not find any career more prestigious than flipping burgers, Berube said.
Berube spoke to about 100 faculty and graduate students in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
"Two thousand Ph.D.s will be released on the nation this year, but there will be scarce jobs at universities," he said, citing a 1989 figure.
Berube offered some suggestions for curbing the crisis, such as early retirement for professors who were no longer pulling their weight in their departments.
"Academia has a high tolerance for professors who people know not to ask to contribute to the department." he said.
Berube also said Ph.D. programs
should accept fewer applicants. Instead, recipients of masters degrees should consider teaching in high schools, where tenure-track positions and salaries that start around $20,000 are available.
Jesse Aleman, Selma, Calif., graduate student, said he agreed with Berube's ideas, but didn't like the idea of screening PhD, candidates.
Aleman, a Mexican American, said that with affirmative action at risk, women and minorities could be denied admission.
The symposium, entitled "Graduate Education: Pressures, Practices, Prospects," continues through today in the Kansas Union. Herbert Lindenberger, professor of comparative literature at Stanford University, will speak at 9 a.m. in Alderson Auditorium about the training and placement of graduate students.
"I think women and minorities are going to be in double jeopardy with the lack of job ideology, and the current Republican ideology," he said.
Several small-group discussions will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. and 3:15 p.m. by humanities faculty from the University of Kansas. Guest speakers and KU faculty also will hold a panel discussion in Alderson Auditorium at 1 p.m.
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