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With tuition costs rising, students are finding it harder to come up with the cash. Tuition was raised just
over 12 percent for the 2005-2006 school year.
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and momentum by enabling the
university to hire more faculty over
the next six years to reduce class
size, improve technology resources
and increase scholarships for in
state students.
Other additions to the
Columbia campus are state-of-the
art learning centers at Capstone
and West Quad residence halls.
Campus security will also receive
more funding because of the new
budget approval.
“The new budget reaffirms the
university’s commitment to
guaranteeing undergraduates an
academic experience unmatched
by any other public university in
the Southeast,” Sorensen said.
“Carolina has made impressive
progress during the last three years,
and I am pleased that this budget
will allow us to build on our
momentum and strengthen our
commitment to quality.”
“We don’t like raising tuition,
but what choice to we have?” said
Scott Verzyl, director of
undergraduate admissions, and
added that many public colleges
have been forced to raise tuition in
order to sublimate inadequate state
appropriations.
Verzyl said he understood the
tuition increase would have an
effect on students struggling to pay
for college. “We don’t want to
make college unattainable,” he
said. “We try to keep our tuition
increases moderate and predictable
so that people with high needs
don’t miss out on college.”
He also said financial aid will be
stepped up this year, with more
money than in previous years being
used to offset costs for students
with high levels of need.
“We try to be very sensitive to
people with high levels of need,
and we are trying to provide
financial aid. We are not raising
tuition to limit access to the
university.”
Verzyl doesn’t expect the
increase to have an effect on the
number of applicants to USC.
“We certainly expect the interest
in USC to stay the same or
increase. We had a record number
of 13,000 freshmen [applicants]
this year.”
Across the board, students at
USC branches in Aiken, Beaufort,
Sumter and the Upstate will see an
average increase of $198 for
students per semester.
‘Tknew tuition would go up,
but I didn’t know it would go up
by that much,” said third-year
biology student Manish Dave. “I’m
not thrilled with the increase, but I
understand that there’s a reason
behind everything.”
Dave said the improvements to
the campus would prove to justify
the tuition hike.
“The reason we have several
improvements on our campus
today is because former USC
students had an increase in their
tuition. Therefore, the tuition
increases will work towards making
USC better than it already is.”
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