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Fancy Dorms Aren’t The Main Reason Tuition Is Skyrocketing
In 2000, Temple University was primarily a commuter school. On-campus dorms could house fewer than 4,000 students out of a total student body of more than 30,000. Most facilities were badly outdated, and the average student paid $12,800 a year (in 2016 dollars) in tuition to attend. Today, Temple, where I work, looks very different. Beautiful new buildings are the norm rather than the exception. A recently built 24-story dorm and adjoining dining center highlights the university’s transition to a residential campus.
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At the same time, how do you balance a budget for the State's? It's a slope that hurts, but what are we supposed to do? Where do we cut funding? Maybe we ask the colleges to drop sports and other things like that? Everybody needs to be involved in the crunching and cutting though, never expect a grant to be there forever, but at the same time maybe the states should have publicly talked about cutting the budget on higher education. I just see this as an everybody loses situation.