European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Catlon and inflation Mago change in Hie consumer Price tide find in a sverige in id College Siu wits Lor tuition fees room Board and other ims. The student Cher Goscoe Lor school year and lha consumer and i la for la Biel years we Loti Twain in october. Consumer Price Index student charges. Vorlik times pop astr tents walking Clung one of the Many tree lined ild walks an Kite University Campus in Houston tuition Bills rising faster than inflation rate Byle Mitgang associated press f or the sixth straight year tuition Almany colleges will increase Aster than the nation s inflation Rale. The reasons schools offer Lor the rising costs have grown so Lamellar you  hum along. Processors salaries Haven t made up ground lost in the inflationary 1970s. Classroom buildings and dorms Are crumbling. Books and lab supplies Cost a bundle. Federal student Aid is shrinking. Next All s tuition increases won t be As Steep As Lour or live years ago when inflation was just beginning to Cool and colleges were announcing increases of 15 percent or More. But they Are hefty. At Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania tuition fees room and Board will Rise 11 percent to $15,650. Harvard will Cost $16,145. Up 6,9 percent and Yale will go up 6.8 percent to s 16,040. Syracuse University will go up 7.5 percent St. Lawrence University in new York stale 9,4 percent Vanderbilt University 9.4 percent Rollins College in. Winter Park  9.1 percent Massachusetts Insl Fute o technology 6 percent University of Miami 8,7.percent. Grinnell College in Iowa 8.6 percent. Many colleges Are stiff deciding next gaffs Rales. But it appears average increases May come close to fast year s 7 percent about 3 percent above the National inflation rate in 1965. That follows increases averaging 7 percent in 1964-85, 11 percent in both 1983-84 and 1982-83, and 13 percent in 1981 -82, All increases that exceeded he nation s inflation rate. Is this justified As higher education officials insist or was assistant Secretary of education Chester e. Finn or. Right when he criticized higher education s Tweedy inefficiencies like faculty tenure that keep costs perennially High. There truth on both Lidei. A recent analysis by the american association of University professors found that professors salaries have begun to rebound. Full professors now Are paid an average $42.500, but their salaries still buy less than they did in the late 1960s and Early 1970s. Many colleges postponed building maintenance in the 1970s, and now students have 10 pay the Bill. Campus Energy costs Are dropping but the savings have been of Sel by rising insurance rates Al some schools like Mills College in Oakland Calif. Spokeswoman Susan Shea said the school was about to increase its tuition by about 9 percent but a sudden big jump in insurance costs has forced the school to recalculate. Others Point out that tuition typically covers Only a fraction of the Cost of College. Federal student Aid in fiscal 1966 was about $4.8 billion roughly the same As the previous year bul was Worth less due to inflation. The Gramm Rudman budget balancing Taw May require deeper cuts and schools Are having id devote More of their resources to provide Grants and Loans. Yale spokesman Walter Litten said tuition covered Only about half the Cost of an education at his school. But critics say there Are less just billable reasons for the Rise of tuition. The trouble is that there Are Happy customs of the academic profession that get in the Way. Like being on ensure said Harold Howe u. A Harvard lecturer and former . Commissioner of education under president Johnson. In higher education the Public is asked to just sit Back and Lake ii. I Don l think it s reasonable to assume frankly thai every Lime a College fixes its Root that he Federal taxpayers should provide More student Aid said finn. College Foll class acknowledge there Are factors in Selling tuition that schools rarely in Ever mention in their letters to parents. A school will charge whal it believes the Market will Bear Tor example. That resales to the school s reputation the goals the school sets Tor itself whom it considers its Competition and occasionally what s happening in the local Economy. Al Grinnell for example tuition have risen sharply because its National reputation outweighs the fact that it is located in a depressed arming state. Millsaps College Strong enough academically to compete with other top Southern schools like Vanderbilt or Tulane will raise its costs about 8 percent o $s,63