Her tuition and dormitory fees for the academic year are paid with grants.
In the spring, Hunter College notified Ms. Morgan that her financial aid package would not cover the summer dormitory fees.
They are proud of their surviving daughter, but they are not happy that to attend school beyond the third grade she must make that same hike over a high mountain pass, then stay at school for two weeks at a time, paying dormitory fees that are a terrible strain.
As with the previous dormitory fee increase of 221 percent in 1997, making the dormitories "financially self-supporting" was one of the reasons cited by the University Housing Office for the revision.
Workers sign contracts they cannot understand, which include paying for food and lodging in factory dormitories, medical fees and penalties for work not up to standard.
Mr. Adler also said that day care and nursery school programs would be part of any new downtown Y. Financing would be similar to that of the uptown Y, he said, where 30percentt of earned income is from contributions and the rest is from fees: for dormitory rooms, concert hall presentations, the health club and camps (which some 1,600 children attend).
By Western standards, the long list of fees -- tuition, dormitory rooms, textbooks, computer access -- may seem a pittance, about $290 a year.
Nearly all institutions are also considering ways to charge students for the access they get, whether through computing fees, higher rates for dormitories or fines for heavy Internet activity.
In the academic year 2011 2012, fees for all UPLB dormitories increased by at least 25 percent from the previous rate of ₱350 (US$8) a month.
He and Mr. Bianco, who ran the university's dormitories and dining halls, developed an experimental summer program in which people over 55 could, for a modest fee, stay in a college dormitory and take courses in subjects as varied as the geography of the White Mountains, weaving and early American music.
They receive highly subsidized education, including tuition fees at 5% of actual educational cost and free clothing, dormitory, food and learning materials during their school years.
