The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27
Pres. of Universityof Wiscon-
sin Gives Pertinent Facts
in Regard to School
EDUCATE STUDENTS FOR $500

That the cost of the state for the
instruction per student at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin is approximately
500 year and not between 1915 and
5000 as stated before the finance com
mittee of the legislature by represen-
tatives of the normal schools yester-
Charles r. Van Hise of the university
today.
The total amount available last year
from state appropriations for instruc-
ton and research in the university
after the amount of the unexpended
income was deducted, he showed, was
$676,737. This amount for current ex-
penses, President Van Hise pointed
out, included the cost of investigation
in agriculture, public health, engineer
ing and science, which cannot fairly
be charged up to instruction of stu
dents. From one-third to one-fourth of
the total running expenses of the uni
versity is for investigation and re-
search which benefits the whole state
and is not part of the cost of in,
struction.
Deducting third from the total
income used Of the $676,73755 and di-
viding this Shy the total number of
students enrolled, 4947, gives the total
cost per student to the state annually
as $91.20. If one-fourth of the total
running expenses is allowed for in
vestigation and research work the
total cost to the state of each stu
dent is $102.60 a year, Thus on the
first basis the cost per student to the
state is $102.60 and on the second
basis $91.20. 1t is evident, therefore,
that the most accurate estimate of the
cost of instruction of the students to
the state is approximately 500 each
per annum.
cit is not meant to indicate that
this is the total cost of instruction
per student at the university, but 500
per annum per student represents the
cost to the state of Wisconsin for this
instruction, says President Van
Hise. "The other sources of income
include grants from the United States
government, income from trust funds
given to the university by private in
dividuals and fees from students.
Money for new buildings and per-
manent improvements, President Van
Hise commended, "should not be
charged up to the cost of instruction
of students in any one year since the
expenditures for new buildings are
mainly for the benefit OF students of
later years. The students of this year.
on the other hand, have the advant-
ages of all the money expended for
permanent improvements in the past. -
In the summer session the cost per
student for instruction is 1884, but
as the summer session. students are
charged an incidental fee of SIS, the
cost to the state OF each university
summer student is $4.34. In the nor
NAL schools the cost per student in the
summer session is 1913 and as the
students pay fee Of $500 the cost
to the state Of normal school instruc-
ton in the summer is $4.43.
"The average number of students
for each instructor for the current
year at the University of Wisconsin
is one to twelve, President Hise show
ed. This is a larger number of stu
dents per instructor than at Columbia.
where the ratio is one to rs, at Har-
ward with one to seven, Yale one to
niue, Illinois one to ST., Pennsylvania
one to 9.S and at Stanford one to s.5.
| Wisconsin Is ratio is the highest of any
! of the first class institutions.