With their endowments ravaged by the financial markets and more students clamoring for assistance, private colleges like Reed are making numerous changes this year in staff, students, tuition and classes that they hope will tide them over without harming their reputations or their educational goals.
Many libraries have been trying to recruit from their own support staffs, offering tuition vouchers and support for employees who want to become librarians.
This means big faculties, big staffs, big tuition revenues, and poor student-to-full-time-faculty ratios.
The consequences of these gouging cuts to the Golden State's educational system have meant dramatic increases in tuition, staff reductions, faculty hiring freezes, academic program cuts, and the ushering in of a culture of despair and disrepair throughout public schools, community colleges, and universities.
Mrs. Powers is a teaching assistant at the Ardsley Middle School, and, as a staff member, pays tuition at a discounted rate.
The university is now stating that if it were to meet DFA's salary and staffing demands, the tuition increase could go as high as 17% in September, ranging from $800 to $1400 per student depending on the program.
In Nebraska, rising tuition and staff cuts sparked a big protest at the Capitol last month.
At least 43 states have cut assistance to public colleges and universities, according to a report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, resulting in reductions in faculty and staff in addition to tuition increases.
Who will build the facilities and hire the faculty and staff beyond what new tuition dollars can reasonably provide?
Charter school companies can require, as a condition of employment, that staff register and pay tuition for their certification programs, eliminating options and providing the companies with an additional profit stream.
