Show Rising Costs Face Colleges Two fundamental questions facing college policy makers in Utah are what can be done to hold rising costs in check without sacrificing educational and how much of any increase in costs should be borne by the student and how much by the general THESE WERE the queries posed by Utah the private research in their latest analysis of the outlook for higher education in According to the if per student costs continue to rise at the rate of the past few total operating expenditures at Utah public colleges could double by DURING THE past five years per student operating costs have climbed 54 or an average of nine percent each year This is in contrast to the experience during the first half of the 1960 when per student costs remained virtually FOUNDATION analysts attribute the cost rise of the past rew vears expansions to accommodate minority and the limited additional cost savings at the public colleges over those adopted in the early the period colleges were able to institute a number of cost-cutting such as the increased use of graduate students as teaching assistants the elimination of small and the of large lecture THE REPORT notes that the proportion of operating costs derived from student fees has increased within the past Utah public colleges rank high in the tuition charges for resident but are still below average in the fees for nonresident students despite the substantial boosts made in out-of-state charges during recent These increases in nonresident have scaled down no means eliminated the subsidy that Utah taxpayers make toward the education of out-of-state Utah Foundation analysts point AT THE various Utah the charges to nonresident students range between 54 percent and 86 percent of actual The efforts made to require that nonresident students at the Utah public colleges pay a higher proportion of actual costs appear to have reduced the percentage of such out-of-state The proportion of nonresident enrollment at Utah public colleges has declined from percent in to in THE Foundation report cites a Federal study which shows that tend to stay within the state for their college while Utah institutions attract relatively large numbers of out-of-state Of the Utah residents attending college in approximately percent were enrolled at- Utah institutions and only percent were attending college in some other On theother there were students enrolled at all Utah colleges and of which percent were Utah residents and or percent were nonresidents of the A SUBSTANTIAL part of the in-migration to Utah colleges results the attraction Brigham Young of many the private Utah have grown faster than Between 1990 and 1970 enrollment growth at the private institutions amounted to compared with a total increase of percent at- the public ENROLLMENTS are expected to increase during the but level off after the to the Foundation Although demographers see a new growth m birthrates in the it would take eighteen years any such increase much of effect fon higher no-new-surge in college enrollments is anticipated much before latter part of the |