University of Washington raising Tuition 20%

BY AMY ROLPH, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
Updated 11:13 a.m., Thursday, June 30, 2011

Resident undergraduates attending the University of Washington this fall will pay 20 percent more, the school's Board of Regents decided Thursday morning.

The annual cost for in-state undergrads will be $10,574, marking the largest ever tuition hike in the history of the UW.

This year, tuition and fees amounted to about $8,700.

"It's too much, too quick," said Conor McLean, president of the Associated Students of UW in a prepared statement released Wednesday night. "This is a campus of communities, and decisions need to be made with the opinions of all those communities considered."


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The state shouldered about 80 percent of the cost of educating residents at the UW in 1990. Now, students will pay 70 percent of the cost.


Cal public Universities raising tuition by roughly the same percentage:

At CSU, the trustees are tossing around the possibility of raising tuition 15 percent for next spring, which they could vote on as early as July 12. CSU students already face a 15 percent tuition hike this fall, bringing the price to nearly $6,000 with mandatory campus fees.

Some students don't even call the increases "tuition" anymore, but tax increases. They say state lawmakers are deceptive in claiming to have passed the budget without raising taxes.

"Every time we raise taxes on students, the Legislature is off the hook - because we pay the tax, but they don't make that clear," said Steve Dixon, a Sacramento State University graduate student in economics who serves on the CSU Board of Trustees.

At UC, the gradual shift from state to student support suggests the public university is becoming privatized.

"It is fair to begin wondering whether it is appropriate to continue calling the University of California a public university system," said Alfredo Mireles, a UCSF nursing student and member of UC's Board of Regents.




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Same in many other states. The privatization of the great US educational system continues unabated....

Undergraduate tuition at the University of Minnesota schools (five campuses) will increase 5% to $11,650 annually (tuition only).

Undergraduate tuition at the five MnSCU four-year schools will increase nearly 5% to $7,026 annually (tuition only); at the 25 two-year community and technical colleges it will increase just under %4 to $5,171 annually (tuition only).

When I was at the U of M (Twin Cities campus) in the mid 1980s, tuition and books were about $450 per quarter depending on the number of credit hours taken. Where the hell are kids and their parents supposed to find this kind of money?

The University of Illinois at Chicago I believe its 26k a year including room and board, books and all my fees.

... at a public state university, it was possible to work a part-time job year-round to cover tuition/books/fees and share a crowded, cruddy, story-inspiring apartment with other students (moving at least once a year; never, ever getting the deposit back) and graduate debt-free or with a few small loans. Occasionally, the parents might cover a bill or slip you some cash and some donated plasma to beer money.

Seems like the should be the goal. I can't imagine finishing school with the kind of debt current students are getting saddled with to cover tuition/fees/etc. In fact, I couldn't have taken my first job out-of-college if I had a monthly school loan payment of even $50 a month then because the job paid so little (and was a great job, led to better jobs).