Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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Costs rise at public colleges
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The country's four-year public colleges and universities, traditionally among the best buys in higher education, are getting more expensive — they now charge an average of $4,587 a year for tuition, room and board.
That is 7 percent more than a year ago, according to a survey released yesterday by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.
*Tuition alone jumped by 8 percent for students attending college in their home state and 11 percent for out-of-state students.
The steepest increases in percentage terms were in Texas, for years the home of the country's least expensive public universities. Tuition and fees for state residents jumped 57 percent, from $446 a year to $701, while out-of-state students saw their bills soar 162 percent, from $1,437 to $3,764.
The Texas legislature boosted the colleges' charges amidst a budget crunch brought about largely by depressed oil and gas prices.
Louisiana, another state hit by falling energy prices, had the second
Total costs at KU exceed national average
Like students across the country, KU students have felt the pressure of higher college costs with in-station tuition increasing by 15.2 percent over the past three years.
By a Kansan reporter
Kanas residents paid $534 for tuition in 1983, while this year, tuition for residents was $615.
and $1,517 in 1985, an increase of 14.6 percent.
KU students also pay higher-than-average total costs, according to David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Non-residents naid $1,324 in 1983
Total average fees for Kansas residents now stand at $4 for $5,200 a year, while the national average is $4,878.
Out-of-state students at the University of Kansas can expect to pay between $6,725 and $7,025 a year. Ambler said.
These average estimated costs are the cost of books and supplies, housing, campus activity fees and miscellaneous items such as laundry, travel and entertainment.
Rising housing costs have contributed to the increase in student costs, Ambler said.
highest increase in tuition and fees,
27 percent for residents and non-
residents alike. That boosted tuition
and fees to $1,071 for home-state
students and to $2,134 for non-
residents.
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The average public college bill of $4,587 still is roughly half what it costs to spend a year at the typical private four-year college. That has led to a surge of applications at many prestigious public universities.
One campus that bucked the national trends was the University of Oklahoma's Health Sciences Center, where tuition and fees for undergraduates were lowered from $1,338 to $857 for residents and from
$3,624 to $2,719 for out-of-state students.
Hawaii, Nevada, the district of Columbia and Guam did not raise tuition and fees for 1985-86. Delaware, Montana and Washington had 20 percent increases. Alaska raised its charges by more than 15 percent. Nebraska posted a 14 percent increase and Tennessee, 13 percent.
Five states boosted the charges by 11 percent: Georgia, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri and New Jersey, Virginia and North Dakota also had increases of 10 percent or more.
Twenty states raised tuition and fees by 5 to 9.9 percent; Colorado,
Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Room and board cost $2,343 at the average public campus this year, up by 5 percent, or $101, over last year.
For in-state residents, tuition averaged $1,278, making the full tab for a year on campus $3,621. The average tuition bill for out-of-state students was $3,210; coupled with the cost of food and dorm space, that made their total bills $5,535 on average.
University holds classes by computer
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Problems may be over for students who hate getting up for that early morning class or who are tired of scrambling for campus parking.
At the Electronic University, it's possible to sag a degree using the TeleLearning Systems' program and a home computer.
"It's that easy," said Ronald F. Gordon, founder and president of TeleLearning Systems, an educa-
onal telecommunications program that connects a student's personal computer with an instructor.
"It doesn't matter if you live on one side of the continent, and the school is on the other end," said Walter Rowen, the university's director of public relations. "As long as you have a computer and a telephone, you're all set."
The courses range from Right Brain Drawing to Information Systems for Management and cost between $45 and $295. The two-year-
old Electronic University leads to two associate degrees, two bachelor's degrees and three graduate programs.
"Of course, the Electronic University doesn't issue degrees," Rowen said. "We just hook the student up with the school that'll grant the degree."
Now only two accredited institutions — Thomas A. Edison State College of Trenton, N.J., and City University of Bellevue, Wash. — provide classes for credit on the
network.
"One day with the Electronic University, it'll be possible to take a course from leading authorities in various fields," said Gordon, the former chief executive officer of Atari Inc.
The university, which now serves about 14,000 students, obviously is not for everyone. Gordon said. For one thing, extracurricular activities are a bit slim. There are no fraternities or sororities, dormitories or football games.
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