European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Persistence helps in seeking ways to ease Cost Burden 8y Lee a. Daniels new York times students do not have to give up on Al lending the College of their Choice even when they find a growing Gap Between the Cost of school and Pineir financial Aid package. Educators and state officials who direct education loan programs say there Are still several ways to ease the Burden on students and parents. Their first piece of advice. Though is to be persistent. Joseph Sclamo. Cayman of the National association of student financial Aid administrators said he was concerned thai publicly about rising College costs and the trouble some families have in meeting them had discouraged some Apper can hmm pursuing All the financial avenues available. Have a sense that More and More applicants and their families Are experiencing so Sharp a disappointment when they Don t get a i the financial Aid they need from the institution that they give up and immediately Back away from the College they really want to attend said Sciame who is vice president Lor financial Aid and student services at St. John s University. The discouragement Factor has grown sharply i think " sources Olaid olten overlooked by slide nos and parents Sclamo said include scholarships Iron local Community organizations and Small local foundations Roost of ihp5e scholarships Aren t based on need and the often go begging for  to said the awards lend to be Small but the can be unt remely helpful in bridging gaps " Haskell Rhyll vice president of the College braid and an expert on student financial Aid. Nolfi that students living on Campus had several ways to Cut costs. Among them he said Are these living in Low Cost student cooperative putting a Price tag on education by Michael Norman new York times in some Way the education of Ever College student in the United states i financed from the Public trough. Taxes pay tuition taxes buy books taxes build buildings to provide subsidies because As Jefferson instructed higher education is for the common Good. It trains the country s professionals improves morals and forms in students the habits of reflection and Correct action rendering them examples of virtue to others and of happiness within rising College costs what s available to pay the Bill average Cost to attend private Public University University median family income total available Aid in minion Grants Loans work 1980-81 s 6.566 s 2,711 $21,023 $9,408 s 6,957 5660 198142 7.439 3.079 22,386 9.353 7.b91 624 1982-83 8.537 3.403 23.433 8,516 7,449 615 198344 9.307 3,628 24,580 6,511 8,479 683 1944-85 10.243 3,899 26.433 8,893 9.529 645 195-86 11.110 4,170 27.735 9.564 9.790 656 198647 11,870 4,370 29.45b 9.744 10.139 662 Chance 80.8% 61.2% 40,1% 3.6% 1980-8110 1966-87 include tuition is room and Board. " income data Are or the Calendar year in which the academic year begin. 4s.tv 0.3% housing on Campus or sharing an apartment 0 1 Campus. Joining a food cooperative popular at Man colleges. Buying used books instead of new ones. Looking of 3 bolter paying Job than the one Olfred by Trio College s work study program. Attending College part time instead of Lull Lime. Allot these things Are an accepted pail of me by colleges across Iho country hell said. They re really Par of the Nandal package Many students carve out Tor themselves once they gel on Campus and some College students pursue Thorn out of Choice As much As need so there s no stigma attached to it. To need to transplant the process of considering them so that students can consider them when they re still in High  another Way to close the financial Aid Gap is to borrow from private sources or from state financed loan programs created especially to help College students in such a predicament. For the future parents might look into the guaranteed tuition plans offered or scheduled to be Olferd soon by at least six states. In such a plan parents will pay a certain amount to participate in a slate administered fund that will Guaran Loe enough Money for tuition when their child  we get better government we got a belter society. We Gol a future. What Price b too great for that wha citizen would begrudge i1? it s the state s response Billy to assist you said Vendor Rodriguez a 21-year-old under gradual of Mon chair slate College in Montclair. . We Al work together in this country. Ii they Don t educate the next generation that s coming along How is that generation going to help the country Rodriguez receives about $2.500 a year in financial assistance to pay for tuition less and books. This Money is provided by the people at new Jersey and the people of the United Stales. In truth his tuition and tees roughly �2,000. Are Only 30 percent of what it actually costs the people to educate him so in Ellel he receives an education valued at roughly �6,600 there Are nearly 66,000 full and part time students in the reaches College age. Wyoming already has this kind of program and Florida Indiana. Maino Michigan and Tennessee Are developing their own. Another option is Lilion pre payment programs which Are offered by some institutions. In these parents pay a Given school a hat fee that will cover the Cost of tuition when their child is ready to Enill. In addition. Congress is considering a Bill that would encourage parents to buy United states savings Bonds in order to provide for their childrens s future College costs. The Bill which would make the interest earned by such Bonds tax exempt if they were dished to pay Lor education is being supported by a Broad coalition of higher education associations. Source the co Ley Board although to mfg costs continue to tear Many to Holt  . Boow ant Itaf Cefi at feb North Octroi Ltd schools the Art in Winston Stottm part of tin Antver tool North Carolina Lytten. State s Public colleges and thus As tuition and Lees escalate yearly it is easy to Soo How the Cost of building a better society can mount. Rodriguez is the youngest of two children of a Barber and a seamstress to wifi a the first member of Hij family to earn a College degree. He has loaded trucks stacked boxes and taught judo to earn his keep. He drive to class in a 1972 Orange Volkswagen that has 176,000 Miles on it this antique is riddled with holes and requires Ino hands jus to gel in started. Rodriguez is a physical education major who plans to Leach school so in of feel Iho citizenry will gel a direct return on ils investment in him. I know in sounds socialist or communist to say society should pay Lor our Edu Cariot he said. Out there is nothing wrong with that idea. Ii a i people were educated there would t to so Many  Jefferson put