European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine College officials defend sharply rising tuition Pony know How we poes Iru View Var a m few by Joseph Berger new York times he Price tag for our years of College in Itie a mod Stales will approach $80.000 a some of the nation s campuses next september that s Aboul the Cost of a modes House in Man pans of the country. Angered by rising costs Federal officiate have assailed colleges in language that comes close 1o accusing them of gouging students Bruce m. Carries Deputy under Secretary of education has said that Many colleges choose to increase Lilion because they can get away with it and they can gel away Wilh it because inflation in  therefore he said they be decided they can go ahead and pig Oul gut Catege officials say that to keep the schools attractive toy have la continue to raise tuition so that Hie schools can spend More on items Iran computer centers to recruiting More women As coaches the increases announced by Public and private schools so Lar this year Range Horn 5 of 10 percent Wilh the top scale private colleges now changing More than $13,000 Lor Ilion room Board and Lees. Co egos Are spending More to provide things thai Slu Dertis and sheif parents want and  said Michael o Teclo. Pics Dent of lha consortium for it advancement of private higher education an association of Louit eddans and corporations Hal Aid higher education. Mido Sebury College in Vermont is compiling a Ihrcke Story Center to Cater to its students Reliance on computers. It has added a health cd Calion officer to counsel students about drug addiction and Oleary disorders fined an extra coach to strengthen is athletic program for women and increased its admission staff to recruit graduates of Rural High schools this fall the Price of a year Al Middlebury will Rise by id.3 percent to $17,000. Just like any important part of file said Middlebury s president Olin Flo Bison most americans believe you get what you  that sentiment is shared by Many colleges last year Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania spent to 16.000 on a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer so its students could perform sophisticated analyses of compounds. Next semester the Bill for a year at Gettysburg will Risa by 9.9 per cent to s 15,260. Partly because of the spectrometer Gettysburg s president Charles e. Glassock said thai seven years ago the school concerned about compiling Lor a shrinking Pool of College age students chose to focus on How we we do what we Oto and we started to increase the  the College could have done without its spec Tremeler. He said except that students later in me would not have been quite so successful in what they  it became Clear thai Young people were seeing College As an investment and that Price was less important than result he said. Indeed colleges say that the demands society places on them to shelter students from drugs and alcohol to diversity their campuses with More Black. Hispanic and Rural students 10 provide Access ramps and elevators Lor the handicapped to prepare students Lor a High tech society have to be reflected in tuition Bills College tuition is rising about twee the rate of inflation which was about 4 percent in 1937. But College of Licals say comparisons with the consumer Price Index Are unfair because heir cortege Deal with a generally higher costing Market Basket of expenses. A study by the College Board indicates that irom 1981 to 1987, the Cost of attending a private University increased 81 percent while median family income Rose 40 percent. Robison tikes to Point out that Middlebury 5 actual Cost per student is 124,000, which is $7,000 More than what ii charges. Like other colleges the difference comes from its endowment and alumni gilts. College officials suggest Hal arise in the numbers of applications 29 percent at Gettysburg �0 percent Al Bennington confirms their judgment that students Are willing to pay for Quality. Ine Rabing the diversity of a Campus often requires the hiring of recruitment stall Large infusions of financial Aid and mire Counselor and remedial instructors. Much of that Burden is paid by More affluent students in what some experts Call a Robin Hood syndrome. Officials at Brown University where tuition has risen about Iso percent Over 10 years say More than 12 percent of the leap next fall to $18.046 irom this year s $16,951 is ethic table to Sleeper financial Aid. Federal officiate question whether colleges need to spend so much to provide a Quality education. You May not to Able to educate a student Al All for $19,000," said games. It s not a function of Money. It s what goes on at the school. There s no substitute for discipline Good curriculum and hard work and i Don t think you can buy those  College officials blame the government for much of the tuition spiral. Alan fein budget director of the University of Chicago says Federal Aid Lor students has not Kepi Pace with inflation and neither have Federal outlays that pay research salaries at a major research University like his. He attributes tuition increases partly to an anticipated decline of 5 percent in alumni donations generated by new Federal tax Laws and the Stock Market crash. In response Carnes contends that Federal Aid has gone up irom $15,2 billion last year to $16 billion this year and that faculty salaries form no larger a slice of the College pie irian they did years ago. He traces some of the High Cost of College to the swelling of the ranks of vice presidents and Deans and o outlays for recruitment. To remain competitive colleges feel they must attract excellent faculty members and keep the ones Hoy have Sandy Johnson director of policy and planning for the University of Colorado which charges roughly $9,840 for out of Sale residents laments that full professors Al her University average $45.300 annually compared with $64,000 at Berkeley and $69,700 at Harvard. Colleges Are also expensive for reasons that have to do with their institutional personality Bennington College in Vermont whose current charts a $18,990. Maintains an expensive student faculty ratio of b-Lo-1 its 600 students devise their own programs of study often taking tutorials Wilh individual professors figures from Public institutions suggest that there May be some Merit to lha private colleges argument Hal tuition is really As expensive As it is. The University o Carlor Ravat Berkeley a state school regarded As one of the nation s Best colleges is expected to raise its charges or out of stale Educ nuts next year to about $10.930. A 5 3 percent increase that is a Clear bargain but much of the Cost of Berkeley s education is paid Lor by the slate s legislature. A rough estimate based on the College s $613 million Budge and its 32.000 Slu Donl enrolment suggests that the Cost of educating a student for a year is $19.100, Ray Rotvig a Berkeley spokesman says private colleges arc not soaking their  sunday. April 3, 198b the stars and stripes Page 13