Sentences with phrase «despite increases in tuition»

Spending at many historically under - resourced institutions has been largely flat in recent years, despite increases in tuition driven by declining state support.

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Norman Lamb said the Liberal Democrats had learned an «extremely painful lesson» from raising tuition fees to # 9,000 while in coalition government with the Conservatives, despite ex-leader Nick Clegg's pledge to vote against any increase.

By a vote of 1628 to 26, members of the statewide union of so - called academic student employees ratified the 3 - year contract granting them an immediate and retroactive 1.5 % pay increase, future pay hikes tied to faculty raises, and continued complete remission of tuition and fees (including health care fees) despite recent, sharp increases in these charges.

Blaney's argument is relevant, considering that Pennsylvania's private universities accounted for 60 % of the state's minority bachelor's degrees in math, science, and engineering, despite the significantly higher tuitions.9 There is evidence to show that decreasing and eliminating debt for lower - income students would likely increase the number of minority students majoring in science and engineering at elite schools and overall.