U of R announced tution INCREASE! PLEASE READ

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<p>I need to make a statement about this increase:</p>

<p>It is not necessary. It is not. Every year, there has been an increase. from 2002 to now, tuition has DOUBLED. </p>

<p>For all of you that think an increase is a must, that is not true. </p>

<p>Tennessee's</a> University Of The South Bucks Annual Tuition Hike Trend : NPR</p>

<p>I felt like the school newspaper, Campus Times, on the issue that the tuition increase was announced, if you read the entire issue, you will see how the editors tried to let you in on the satire of the situation. (note: CT is not controlled by the U of R admin as they are a separate organization with outside funding) </p>

<p>Here is the issue:
<a href="http://media.campustimes.org/2011/01/2011-03-17.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://media.campustimes.org/2011/01/2011-03-17.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>On the first page, there is news about a new building for the Warner School of Education that will cost $24 million to build. </p>

<p>Here is how they plan to finance it: </p>

<p>"The majority of the money will be from a $3.5 million commitment to the University from R. Wayne LeChase, Raymond’s son and his wife Beverly. The rest will come from reserves, the Warner School, the commitment of the College, as well as debt, which the University plans to reduce over time by raising the extra money."</p>

<p>When is 3.5 million out of 24 million a majority? Also please read in between the lines of
"the commitment of the College" meaning your tuition. </p>

<p>Then down the page you read about the tuition increase. I wish the graph was better but here is what it means: x axis is the year, Y-axis on the left is amount of tuition cost, and y-axis in the right is the % increase from year to year. Green line is tuition and yellow is the percentage. Green and the left y-axis is together and yellow line and right y axis is correlated. </p>

<p>Then on page 5, on the feature column, it had a story about a great professor who isn't sure if he will have a job next year and about a petition that students drafted to keep him.</p>

<p>Honestly, where is your tuition money going toward? </p>

<p>p.s. The Warner School of Education is never used by undergraduates. They give out master and phds.</p>

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<p>whatisit… Though the Warner School of Education is used primarily by graduate students, undergraduates can get permission to take graduate courses at Warner, and we do have a ‘Combined Admission Program’ with Warner as well. </p>

<p>Anecdotally, a colleague of mine read your post and commented that in every Warner course he had taken (he just graduated with an M.S. in Higher Ed.) he had met at least a few undgrads. I am not a full-time student at Warner, but I have taken three classes there, all of which had undergrads in them.</p>

<p>I understand your point - Warner does not have a full-fledged undergrad program, but the presence of a quality graduate school does benefit undergrads.</p>