College budgets."College Just Got a Little Costlier" (AlterNet.org, July 6, 2006) reported that on July 1, 2006, "interest rates on student loans experienced the greatest jump in history, with the variable rates ... shooting up almost two percent.... The rate hike comes as a result of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which was signed into law by President Bush on February 8, 2006 as part of an effort to save the federal government more than $22 billion over the next five years." As states across the country are cutting back on support for public universities and colleges, the costs are passed on to students. Tuition For tuition fees in the United Kingdom, see . Tuition means instruction, teaching or a fee charged for educational instruction especially at a formal institution of learning or by a private tutor usually in the form of one-to-one tuition. is up an average of 40 percent since President Bush took office in 2000 (tompaine.com, September 6, 2006). Putting a college education even further out of reach, Congress voted through a $12 billion cut in federal student aid programs (tompaine.com, April 14, 2006). The March/April 2006 issue of the AAUP's Academe highlights how academic salaries compare with other professions. Over the past twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. , according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the report, medical doctors have experienced a 34 percent increase, lawyers an 18 percent increase, engineers and architects a 5 percent increase. Average faculty salaries have increased just 0.25 percent when adjusted for inflation (The Chronicle chronicle, official record of events, set down in order of occurrence, important to the people of a nation, state, or city. Almanacs, The Congressional Record in the United States, and the Annual Register in England are chronicles. of Higher Education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. , April 28, 2006). |
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