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Show 15 Percent More Than '64' U.S. Colleges Raise Tuition Rates funds to compete for "scarce faculty fac-ulty talent" also results in many tuition increases. The report says tuition is now nearly three times as high as it was 20 years ago. And out-of-state fees are going up especially fast. Non-resident students are paying one-third more than they paid in 1964-65. In that year only four large universities charged more than $1,000 a year; this year there are 22. ' This increase in out-of-state tuition tui-tion "generally reflects moves to make non-resident students pay a larger share of their costs, while state tax funds are devoted to underwriting un-derwriting costs of instruction for in-state tuitions. WASHINGTON (CPS) Four-fifths Four-fifths of the nation's state colleges and universities have raised tuition, tui-tion, fees, and room and board rates this year. A report just issued by the National Na-tional Association of State Universities Uni-versities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC) and the Association of State Colleges and Universities (ASCU) says "There is hardly a student in the country who will pay as much for his freshman year of college as he will for his senior year. "Tuition, fees, and room and board charges are rising so fast and so often that today's state university uni-versity senior is paying about 15 per cent more for his education this year than he did as a freshman in 1964," the report adds. And that's if you're an instate student. Non-residents are paying 23 per cent more than they did as freshmen. fresh-men. The NASULGC represents large state universities and the ASGC represents smaller state colleges and universities. The report shows a 6.5 per cent fees at NASULGC institutions, from a medium of $330 last year to $351.50 this year. Out-of-state tuition tui-tion went up 8.4 per cent from $784 to $850. At ASCU institutions, instate-tuition instate-tuition and fees rose four per cent, from $250 to $260. Out-of-state tuition tu-ition and fees rose nine per cent from $550.50 to $600. Room rates rose sharply at the big schools, increasing 12 per cent for men and 16.3 per cent for women. wom-en. Room increases at the smaller colleges and board increases generally gener-ally were all slightly smaller. The report says there are two major reasons generally given by institutions for fee increases: Failure by state governments to appropriate sufficient funds for higher education. Rising costs of food, labor, operation, op-eration, and construction. The report also says tuition increases in-creases are often "justified by a desire to keep charges in line with those of comparable neighboring institutions." The need for more |