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Spend your second summer session in the beautiful country of Costa Rica
while earning TAMU credit? Want to know how?
Come to an Informational Meeting:
November 8 - 2:30pm to 3:30pm - 80-4 Harrington Tower
November 9 - 10am to 11am - 804 Harrington Tower
November 13 - 3pm to 4pm - 804 Harrington Tower
Included In this program are:
> 4-week intensive Spanish study at the Centro Panamerlcano
de tdiomas for 4 hours / day
> Experience in two ecological/cultural areas tropical cloud forest
and temperate central valley
> Homostay & meals with Costa Rican families
> Extensive field experience in Costa Rican schools
> All excursions (rainforest, coffee plantation, skywafk. etc.)
> Weekend trips to Volcano Arenal and Jaco Beach
To Apply:
>- Go to our online application at http://studyabroad.tamu.edu/appllcatIon.html
> Paper applications also available for pick up In Study Abroad
(Bizzell Hall West, first floor), or in the faculty offices
Deadline Monday. Decembers, 2001
Contact:
Brian Lancaster (btancaster<{3)tamu edu)
Study Abroad Program Office - 1 st Floor - Bizzetl Hall West - 845-0544
http://studyabroad tamu edu
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said. “Splitting the 250 to 300 students allowed to
register at one time between the Internet, phone
and terminal was a huge success."
Putnam said potential problems were not com
puter or system related, but dealt with when and
how many students should register at one time.
“Professors did not want the registration times
to come during class, fearing students would run
out of class or skip classes all together,” Putnam
said. “This was solved by having start times that
did not coincide with class times.”
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associate professor Wayne
Strayer.
“1 can’t say with certainty
that the effects of Sept. 1 1 will
cause any major effect on col
lege tuition,” Strayer said. “The
economic effects have not been
set. it is hard to know if the
effects of the attacks will trick
le down to higher education. I
think it depends on the military
action and how it will affect the
economy as a whole.”
Rising wages for those with
a college degree have also
played a role in the increased
costs of attending college,
Strayer said.
“The major changes we’ve
seen in college tuition rates have
been a result of the changes of
wage gains in the 1980s and
1990s” Strayer said. “Because
of those wage gains, there has
been an increase in demand for
a college education.”
Business’ and consumer’s
lowering confidence in the
economy encourages students
to go to college, said College
Board President Gaston
Caperton.
“Following the recent
attacks and the general eco
nomic uncertainty the nation is
experiencing, it is more impor
tant than ever that we continue
to encourage our students to
pursue a college education,”
Caperton said.
Undergraduates at American
colleges will pay, on average,
from $96 to $890 more this
year than last year for tuition
and fees, according to the
College Board report. Trends in
College Pricing 2001.
But Caperton Said a growing
reliance on loans instead of fed
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thirds of the estimated increase.
“Even though the tuition and
fee rates are rising, student
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Loans now represent 58 per
cent of all financial aid given to
American college students,
compared to more than just 41
percent in 1980 and 1981.
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ing college still remains low
for the nation’s undergradu
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slowed economy and the
increasing demand for college
education, Caperton said.
“More than 40 percent of
students who attend four-year
institutions still pay less that
$4,000 for tuition and fees,”
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to keep college tuition prices in
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PHOENIX (AP) — A wanted mili
tia figure who vowed that he would
never be taken alive was killed by
a law enforcement officer after he
shot a sheriff’s deputy trying to
arrest him, authorities said
Tuesday.
NEWS IN BRIEF
The deputies drew the man out
of his house Monday by posing as
civilians parked near his house in
Eagar, about 165 miles northeast
of Phoenix.
William Milton Cooper, 58, had
confronted people who stopped
near his home with a handgun in
July and September, said
Department of Public Safety
spokesman Steve Volden. The
deputies were serving an arrest
warrant on those incidents.
Cooper turned and fled when
the deputies identified them
selves. He opened fire with a
handgun as two deputies closed
in, wounding an officer in the
head, Volden said. The other offi
cer shot Cooper.
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new. We have always used a system to randomize
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to register, the Web registration system still has
a test coming.
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handle all that we throw at it,” Putnam said. “One
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of Life-Long Learning
Presented by Ann Goodman,
Department of Student Life
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skills and how to continue the process of
life-long learning beyond your college years.
This program is part of the 5 Star Series in the Department of Student Activities.
Questions can be directed toRyanWiIliain8atryan@s1uact.tamu.edi or845-1133.
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