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Rising tuitior By JAY KING Copy Desk Chief f The rising costs of tuition are causing students to * search harder and longer for money to pay for their 1 education, and are forcing many students to look for jobs while they are in school. John Bannister, USC director of financial aid, said j the costs of going to USC have more than doubled during the past 10 years, causing a tremendous ^ increase in the number of students seeking financial . aid. "More and more students are having to borrow more < and more money from more and more sources" to pay < for school, Bannister said. r USC has averaged about 9,500 students borrowing ? between $30-35 million each year. The average stu- s dent loan debt after four years at USC is about $11,000, Bannister said. ] More students tal longer to earn de: By C.E. HOLMAN jobs, class repititi Staff Writer programs as reason More and more college students *ne trend, are taking five years to earn their More students, p? degrees, and USC students are no business and engin exception to the growing nation- arc uuuu^n c wide trend. cation programs, an Because of a stumbling econo- students to gain ex my, students are forced to cope workforce of a f with a lingering recession, and thinking they can c they're working longer hours and only to find themsel taking fewer courses. Richard Ishler Many of USC's degree programs College of Educatic are structured so courses build dents are taking upon each other. By failing a nec- because of the gre essary prerequisite, students can be knowledge required delayed by as much as one or two market, semesters. "It's hard to le Judy Turk, dean of the College about a given fiel of Journalism and Mass years," Ishler said Communications, said she found a taking longer bee "surprising number of students are they need to grasp taking an extra semester, some- best they can, be< times even an extra year, to com- recession, they see plete their degrees." tive job market." She also said when students Acting Provost transfer, either from outside or sees this trend as a within the USC system, they often ence for students, lose credit hours and must make "I think it is a them up. Incoming transfers also Reeves said. "It i< lose credits because some classes dents to work as tl just do not fit any USC courses. own children have Joseph Gibbons, associate dean college, and I think of engineering, cited the economy, great for them." * Apple Macintosh PowerBook1" 145 4/ Get over '400 worth of preloadt Apple? Macintosh? computers s And if you are interested in fina details about the Apple Compu ? 1992 Apple Computer, Inc. Apple, the Apple logo, and Macintosh are registered trademarks CorrecText? developed by Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher of The American Heritage Di< of their respective holders. Offer good on the Macintosh PowerBook 145 4/40 configuration on i forces stuc With the increasing number of students seeki inancial aid and a shortage of government funding ] inancial aid programs, the office is finding it diffic o meet the needs of students. Bannister said the students with the most need i till able to get financial aid because of the need-bas tructure of government programs, but miaaie-incoi amilies are finding it more difficult to secure financ lid. This has led to an increase in the number of \ fate financial aid loan programs, like a loan to parei >ased on the equity of their home. Most students get their financial aid throu Stafford loans. The financial aid office processes abc >30-35 million each year in these loans, about $1nillion in Perkins loans, $1.25 million in work-stu< md about $3.5 million in mostly merit-based schol ihips. To date, the financial aid office has process 14,416 federal aid applications, with students s king ap00 National aver ^ tuition and room ? on, and co-op s for the growirticularly in the | eering colleges, O ooperative edu- Ja opportunity for ^ perience in the | ield of study, .g arry a full load, p Ives sinking. | VW^W75 , dean of the g >n, believes stu- 3 Puhl a longer time ' r UUJ ater amount of ? Priv for today s job USCfs tuition hike *9 arn everything USC'S tuition hike *9 ld iustt four National tuition hike ulUGCDiS BTC * f * a ause they feel public SChOOlS......... the material as National tuition hike -ause with the private schools a very competiSource:National Center for Educ George Reeves positive experi realistic trend," =^\ \jkMfM > good for stu- [_n__ IfW ley mature. 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All qualifying computers come preloaded with software and electronic versions of inst lents to work ng flooding in. for "If this trend continues, we'll have about 15-16,OC ult students apllying for need-based aid," Bannister sal This is the largest number of applications his offic ire has ever handled. ,ed But often financial aid is'not enough to meet tf ne costs of going to USC. Many students must work I ial stay in school. iri- James Byrd, a cooperative education coordinator : nts USC's student employment office, said his office h; had a huge increase in the number of students comir gh through looking for part-time jobs. )ut Byrd said the recession hurt the Columbia job ma 1.5 ket and its lingering eltects are creating an increasing 3y, ly competitive job market. In many cases, employe ar- are now requiring applicants to submit resumes f< part-time jobs, and Byrd suggests students looking f< ;ed jobs need to prepare more and look more carefully f< till jobs. 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Disks and printed manuals arc not included in this offer. look for aid* "We're doing as much as we can to make the )0 Columbia area aware of our services" and the benefits d. of hiring students, Byrd said. -?r* Tr?i nl? n ?-v-v iiirtirvc TArnnn L' nrv* AO on?/4 lk A ? < P <rt A AAfi r? juuiiimiMii juiuui uawii saiu uit IIMII^ tusw of tuition are making it harder on her to pay for le school. to "The more tuition goes up, the more you have to pay back, the higher the interest rates and the longer in you have to pay," Eames said. is "I wouldn't be on work-study now if I could afford tg it," she said. Eames said about 90 percent of her friends have to r- work to help pay for school, and the same is true of 2- mechanical engineering junior Wesley Mclver who rs said most of his friends have to work, too. 3r Mclver works a construction job during the summer ar and saves money for the school year, but with this Dr year's tuition increase he may have to take out another loan. mson to face s, furloughs iated Press severe budget cuts, spokeswoman t of money Clemson Cathy Sams said the school has 11 get from the state is already formed several committees tions for the second to develop some strategies, and that could mean Sho said most of die committees s and furlouohs would eventually develop plans T ? ' called Reduction in Force plans . 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