YSU Jambar ad Tuesday Feb11,2014

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Commentary

       Part time faculty members have expressed sympathy for students faced with ever increasing tuition and fees.   Some are uneasy that it is understandable that students might directly link these increases to personnel costs of their instructors.    The above chart clearly shows that this could not possibly be any part of the increase in tuition and fees.   

        The consumer price index plotted is the U.S. Dept. of Labor Urban Index for all items

        The tuition and fees line includes  full time 12 to 16 sem. hour tuition, the general fee and the information services fee which all students pay.  It also includes an average set of lab and standard college fees as they have blossomed forth throughout the years.  It does not include the parking or transportation service fees. 

        The actual  causes behind tuition and fee  increases can be left for other people to plot other lines on other graphs.