[Magdalen] Tuition

[Judy Fleener]

I paid no tuition at Northern Illinois University in the "olden days".
Tuition was $65 a semester, I paid $5.

My granddaughter is a senior at DePaul in Chicago. I have no idea what she
and my son pay.  It is hefty.  She has a great idea for a job for school
this year.  She has always made money babysitting and belongs to a baby
sitting combine with a number of families and sitters.  Most of Chicago's
schools will be online.  She will offer tutoring for primary grades in
their homes.  The first day she posted a notice about her tutoring
service she had 15 responses. DePaul is in Lincoln Park and Eryn lives in
Wrigleyville. I think Lincoln park may be the highest priced real estate in
Chicago.  Scott can give me better information on that.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 9:47 AM Roger Stokes via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> It's an issue this side of the pond as well. Back in the day (1965-68) I
> got a grant from the local authority which covered all tuition plus a
> sum that (with parentyal contribution) was expected to cover maintenance
> costs. Having a paid job in term-time was strongly discouraged. The
> arrangement differ in the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom
> but here in England tuition is a maximum of 9,250 GBP (currently $12,066
> in US terms). There are loans for this (and poossibly a bit towards
> maintenance) which are repayable from income tax after graduation and
> wiped after 30 years.
>
> It is recognized that a significant proportion of students will never
> pay back all their loan. Having said that a number of studies have shown
> that some degree courses do not offer a positive financial payback over
> a lifetime's earnings. The tuition fee was introduced with much vaunting
> of the "graduate premium" in earnings which some of us doubted at the
> time. It coincided with a significant increase in the number of
> degree-awarding courses so the normal rules of supply and demand
> applied. The government's aim was that most young people would go to
> university which I always thought was a misbegotten idea. Increasing the
> proportion of young people going to university inevitably means lowering
> the bar for university admission and some would find it beyond them and
> drop out with a sense of failure. Their skills lie in other areas and it
> would have been better for them if they had gone straight from school
> into somthing that offered more appropriate training. We are always
> going to need plumbers. electricians, hairdressers, builders, etc.
>
> Roger
>
> On 12/08/2020 14:08, cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> > I'm feeling really old to hear my neighbors discuss the cost of sending
> their kids tocollege.  For example, the neighbor boy who attends the Notre
> Dame branch locally(Kings, Wilkes-Barre) is paying $20,000 per year..
> State colleges for residentsare a bit less, but still hefty.  If memory
> serves me, my freshman year at UW-Madison for my resident status was$89 per
> semester ('55 - '56)..  By the time I got my bachelor's degree four years
> later, thecost had increased to $225 oer semester.  Room and board for a
> year in theWisconsin dormitories was $680 in 1955 - 1956 and $850  my
> undergraduate senior year.  Then UW Medical School was $1,200 per senester,
> but it fell to $600 medical schoolsenior year semester because they paid us
> for drawing all the bloods at UW Medical Center.  I had a good summer job
> with the Wisconsin Highway Department, and paid for mostof the expense of
> tuition plus room and board.  I had no student debt.  This is all ancient
> history.  These current kids will have all this expense and NO
> FOOTBALL.  David Strang.
>
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Hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
Western Michigan