OUTSOURCING TUITION
As the price of tuition rises, out-of-state students may provide relief
HALEMA WALI OBSERVER STAFF WRITER
Issue date: 11/3/09 Section: Observations
Duh, the economy is in shambles. If you didn't know that, well you must be living in some sort of faraway galaxy.
And because the economy is in a downturn, top public colleges are finding it harder to find funding necessary to efficiently run a university.
So what does this mean? Some colleges are really thinking about raising tuition costs, especially to those who would attend out-of-state.
For example, University of California, Los Angeles, has a $131 million dollar budget deficit and they are going to extremes to cover that cost by hiking up tuition by roughly $1000 per year.
That's a lot, considering that 165 courses have been cut, a full 10% reduction. (NYTimes)
So what if that were to happen here at Rutgers? Cutting courses and increasing tuition?
Everyone would essentially be paying more for less things available. That sucks.
In a New York Times article (Paul Fain, "At Public Universities: Less for More") the executive dean of the university's School of Arts and Sciences for Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Douglas S. Greenberg was quoted saying, "the temptation for us to recruit more out-of-state students is very, very strong."
The reason is simple: out-of-state students would have to pay almost double the tuition that an instate resident would.
I know this is for New Brunswick, but I wonder if that could affect the admission rate at Rutgers-Newark.
My guess is that it would have some trickle-down effect.
Logically, it would make sense. R-N already has severe problems with parking for all in-state students who commute to campus.
If there were more out-of-state students, it would mean fewer commuters and more residents.
Thus, a non-existent parking issue and more money being collected from out-of-state residents would be rolling on in to Rutgers.
As an in-state commuter, I'd rather have out-of-state students pay more for their tuition than having my in-state tuition increased to make up for the necessary funds needed. Just sayin'.
And because the economy is in a downturn, top public colleges are finding it harder to find funding necessary to efficiently run a university.
So what does this mean? Some colleges are really thinking about raising tuition costs, especially to those who would attend out-of-state.
For example, University of California, Los Angeles, has a $131 million dollar budget deficit and they are going to extremes to cover that cost by hiking up tuition by roughly $1000 per year.
That's a lot, considering that 165 courses have been cut, a full 10% reduction. (NYTimes)
So what if that were to happen here at Rutgers? Cutting courses and increasing tuition?
Everyone would essentially be paying more for less things available. That sucks.
In a New York Times article (Paul Fain, "At Public Universities: Less for More") the executive dean of the university's School of Arts and Sciences for Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Douglas S. Greenberg was quoted saying, "the temptation for us to recruit more out-of-state students is very, very strong."
The reason is simple: out-of-state students would have to pay almost double the tuition that an instate resident would.
I know this is for New Brunswick, but I wonder if that could affect the admission rate at Rutgers-Newark.
My guess is that it would have some trickle-down effect.
Logically, it would make sense. R-N already has severe problems with parking for all in-state students who commute to campus.
If there were more out-of-state students, it would mean fewer commuters and more residents.
Thus, a non-existent parking issue and more money being collected from out-of-state residents would be rolling on in to Rutgers.
As an in-state commuter, I'd rather have out-of-state students pay more for their tuition than having my in-state tuition increased to make up for the necessary funds needed. Just sayin'.
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