Unequal opportunity: BSU students bring funding inequities to light. (Financial Aid Watch).Fed up with how legislators are ignoring the funding inequity between Idaho's state universities, students at Boise State University rented 12 billboards to help emphasize the severity of the situation. The billboards, leased for $9,000 by the Associated Students of BSU BSU Ball State University BSU Boise State University BSU Black Student Union BSU Bemidji State University BSU Bowie State University (Bowie, Maryland) BSU Baptist Student Union (college religious organization) , feature a pie chart A graphical representation of information in which each unit of data is represented as a pie-shaped piece of a circle. See business graphics. showing how much less funding BSU receives per student compared with other state universities. Funding for BSU--$6,116 per student--is the lowest of the four-year state colleges and universities. By contrast, the University of Idaho The university was formed by the territorial legislature of Idaho on January 30, 1889, and opened its doors on October 3, 1892 with an initial class of 40 students. The first graduating class in 1896 contained two men and two women. gets $8,838 per full-time student Full-Time Student A status that is important for determining dependency exemptions. An individual enrolled in a post-secondary institution may be eligible for certain tax breaks. Notes: The full-time status is based on what the individual's school considers full time. , Idaho State gets $7,095, and Lewis and Clark State College gets $6,996, according to figures released by Idaho State Board of Education. Who says college students only care about partying? |
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