While, as a child, he did not actually walk five miles uphill in the snow to and from school, he did work his way through St. Paul Bible College, in Minnesota, during the 1960s. His father, a factory worker in Akron, Ohio, paid the remaining balance on his blue-collar salary. Needless to say, dad's stories date him a little. While it may stir feelings of animosity, tuition increases no longer come as a surprise. While the consumer price index rose only 2.7 percent, college tuition rose 5 percent.
Students griping about tuition is nothing new to the university.
Imagine their chuckles at current TCU students. And that figure does not factor room and board. During the December 1999 meeting of the Faculty Senate, Chancellor Michael R. Ferrari said if TCU remained on its current budget model, it would run deficits beginning in 2002. Tuition increases are inevitable as much as the sun rising in the east. Ferrari said TCU will continue its policy of an annual 3 percent tuition increase.