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ollege costs set
ecord nationally
ederal aid drops
United Press International
NEW YORK — College tuition
:reased 13 percent for the new
iooI year — double what it cost
| send a kid to college in 1972,
the College Board.
|The record college costs, cou
ld with cutbacks in federal stu-
mt aid, mean many parents and
dents will be asked to cover
re of the bill than they did in
e past, said Joe Paul Case, an
icial with the board’s College
Warship Service.
The College Board, a nonprofit
lucational association serving
dents and schools, said a survey
iwed the most expensive pri-
|te school — at $12,030 per
iool year — is Bennington Col
lege in Bennington, Vt.
[Twelve other schools in the
rtheast, where the high cost of
ported oil adds to the bills,
ire also in the $11,000-plus
ige.
By contrast, total costs at the
most expensive public colleges
will run about $6,000 in the 1981-
82 school year, according to a re
port based on expense information
from 1,160 colleges.
“In 1981-82, average total costs
for resident students rose 13 per
cent ($803) over last year’s costs at
private colleges and 14 percent
($464) at public colleges,” the re
port says.
Trailing Bennington as the most
expensive private schools were
Harvard, $11,950; Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, $11,845;
Yale, $11,600; Sarah Lawrence,
$11,600; Princeton, $11,289; Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, $11,200;
Brown, $11,195; Barnard,
$11,150; Tufts, $11,113; Bard,
$11,063; Dartmouth, $11,045;
and Bryn Mawr, $11,010.
The smallest increases reported
were for students who commute
from home. They face an average
11 percent hike at private colleges
and 10 percent at public schools.
Since the 1972-73 school year,
college bills have doubled. Aver
age total expenses are up by 95
percent at public colleges and 110
percent at private colleges, the re
port says.
Despite the high figures, the
college expense rate runs behind
the inflation rate. The Consumer
Price Index has risen by 123 per
cent.
A survey showed 64.3 percent
of students at private schools and
42.7 percent of students at public
schools depended last fall on some
aid.
The new average residential
college year costs cited by the Col
lege Board are;
— public two-year colleges,
$3,230
— private two-year, $5,604
— public four-year, $3,873
— private four-year, $6,885.
civ hikes to be small
ue to Reagan's policies
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Federal
jirkers will feel the effects of
pident Reagan’s economic re-
kery program beginning Oct. 1,
in the form of pay raises roughly
■e-third as large as those they
r could have expected.
■ The president has proposed a
H percent cost-of-living raise for
jt|efiscal year beginning Oct. Ifor
P million white-collar em-
yees now receiving less than
,000 a year.
The pay increase is to go into
feet for 490,000 blue-collar em-
lyees at different times in diffe-
rent areas of the country.
The annual pay boost is the
smallest since a 4.8 percent in
crease in 1973 and about half as
large as the raise given to federal
workers last year.
In addition, Reagan has ack
nowledged that in accordance
with the 1970 Pay Comparability
Act — which requires govern
ment workers to receive roughly
the same pay as they would for
similar work in the private sector
— his advisers had calculated an
increase of 15.1 percent was due.
But that figure did not survive
pressures brought to bear by
Reagan’s fight to reduce govern
ment spending and bring the fed
eral budget into balance.
Reagan said he is setting into
motion the lower pay increase “in
accordance with our economic re
covery program.”
“While I fully support the com
parability principle as the best
basis for determining federal
pay,” Reagan said, “I believe that
significant changes are required in
the way that principle is currently
defined and implemented.”
The president said his advisers
had proposed legislation to alter
the formula; however, Congress
has not yet acted on it. Reagan
noted the same law applies to the
military, and Congress is expected
to provide a larger pay increase for
the armed forces.
“If an Aggie
needs it, we’ve
probably got it!
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