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April 20, 2005
Hog Funding
The U of A is discussing a tuition hike.
The average University of Arkansas student will pay $300 more next year in tuition and fees if the Board of Trustees approves a proposed tuition hike.
UA officials will ask for a 6 percent increase in tuition, the lowest request since 2001. Tuition has increased 66 percent since the 1997-1998 school year.
Interesting, but not very you say?
Ah yes, but this comes on the heels of a rather successful fund raiser.....which having met its goal of $900 million, has set a new goal of $1 billion. A goal they expect to reach by the end of June.
It's for the students, after all. Students who will now have higher tuition. Pretty neat trick, fund raising & tuition raising all at the same time.
All this explains all the solicitations for 'alumni contributions' I've been getting lately. Solicitations that go straight to the trash because frankly I think they should make do with the billion they have.
No sense them being a pig about it.
Posted by Rita at April 20, 2005 07:38 AM