Not exact matches
So now the Grosse Pointe Board of Education is
considering charging students from outside the district a whopping $ 13,000
tuition fee.
In October 2011, information was leaked that the Board of Trustees was
considering charging tuition to students, and shortly afterwards, plans were revealed to
charge tuition for certain graduate programs.
Their actions were a response to the decision by Cooper Union trustees and President Jamshed Bharucha to
consider charging tuition in light of a waning endowment and rising costs.
We entered this process in good faith as both faculty and patriots of The Cooper Union, forgiving what was
considered from the outset to be a subtly coercive
charge that threatened to impose undergraduate
tuition and / or close one of the three Schools.
Considering the day that President Jamshed Bharucha announced The Cooper Union's financial crisis and the possibility of
charging tuition, the 1st Exhibition Group will address the issue either directly or tangentially in the form of a collaborative art installation.
So why does Cooper Union now find itself forced to
charge tuition of an estimated $ 20,000 a year, abandoning what many
consider its most important legacy?
On Oct. 31, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both reported that Cooper Union was running a $ 16.5 million budget deficit and that officials were now seriously
considering charging tuition as a way to generate enough revenue to cover increasing costs.
Borkowsky said the administration, now led by President Jamshed Bharucha, never really
considered alternatives to
charging tuition.