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By The College Press Service
The face-off with Iraq in the Middle East may hurt
colleges in the United States in a very vulnerable
place: finances.
Higher energy prices and the nationwide recession
that might follow would increase most campuses'
costs, rob them of much-needed state and federal money
and potentially drive up tuition even more rapidly,
some observers say.
In 1973 and 1979 when previous "oil shocks"
rocked the United States, government funding of education
nosedived while schools' expenses skyrocketed.
As a result, strapped colleges began deferring maintenance
on their buildings. Faculty members' raises
became so meager that many teachers left the profession
and, in the late '70s and early '80s, tuition rose
by more than 10 percent a year.
Now, years later, many colleges are just beginning
to emerge from the financial rubble of that period.
"Now, on top of everything else," said Harvey
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Kaiser, a vice president at Syracuse University, "we
have this unanticipated development."
The problem is oil prices, according to various
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Since Aug. 2, when Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein invaded
the oil-rich emirate of Kuwait and gained control
of more than 20 percent of the world's proven
reserves of oil, prices shot up from about $20 a barrel
to somewhere around $25 a barrel.
If the crisis worsens dramatically through, for instance,
the bombing of Saudi Arabian oilfields, world
oil prices could jump to well above $50 a barrel, economists
fear.
Many experts predict prices will stay in the $22 to
$28 range over the next few months, assuming that
other nations produce more oil to make up for the Iraqi
and Kuwaiti oil that is not making it to the market.
Higher oil prices have a drastic, far-reaching effect
on the rest of the economy. For instance, farmers have
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3. "I would like this Saddam Hussein to go the Iraqi em
My family and my people are in Kuwait." tailing how
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to pay more for fertilizer, agricultural chemicals, fuel
and power for their irrigation wells. Transportation,
such as airlines and truckers, will be hurt
Since it costs more to produce and transport farm
goods, higher food prices can soon follow. All things
that contain plastic, which is made from petrochemicals,
also rise in price.
Colleges spend an average of less than 1 percent of
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"At some institutions," Kent Halstead of Research
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it's not going to have much of an effect because
it's such a small share."
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affected immediately," he said. "Some of that, especially
in the private sector, will be passed on to
students."
"The first thing that has to be covered are higher
energy costs," said William Burford, chair of the economics
department at the University of Denver. Other
things! such as campus improvement, "will be the last
to be considered."
L"There will be unanticipated cost rises, which
many colleges will have difficulty addressing because
many of them are already under budget constraints,"
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Campus officials, Kaiser said, are already under increased
pressure to keep tuition stable while dealing
with troubling financial trends.
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which has been expected annually since 1981. In May,
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