Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-01
PROFESSORS ARE:
UNDERP AID, SAYS
JULIUS BARNES
Suggests That Students Sign
Notes for the Difference
Between the Full Cost
and Amount of Tuition,
nv The Associated Prcss.l

New York. Oct. 31.-Taking
promissory notes from poor stud
ents for the difference between the
full cost of instructing them and
the amount of the tuition is advo-
Gated by Julius RI. Barnes in a
statement based on a report of coll
lege tuitions and faculty salaries,
prepared by the institute for public
service, of which he is chairman.
Mr.. Barnes pointed out that this
would be a means of increasing
college revenues and recommended
that the plan be given a wide trial.
Commenting on the institutes
report, which stated that tuitions
in no case equal the cost of Civ
ing instruction. Mr.. Barnes asked:
Would expecting students eth
er to pay as they go or when they
can afford It, or to promise to pay
as soon as they can afford 1t, grad
ually build OFT of student contri-
buttons a great steady flow of sup
port for colleges and the widening
Of opportunities for coming genera
tions?"
The report declared there was
no earthly excuse for charging
rich mans son half what he ought
to pay, and then paying a profess
sor half what he ought to get.
"A great majority of colleges
and universities are paying men,
bers of their faculties far less than
a growing wage" Mr.. Barnes as
serted.
In eighteen colleges. the report
states, full professors receive less
than $4,000 a year, while in 149
the maximum is $4,000. Maximum
salaries at Yale and Michigan are
given as $4,000 for full professors,
and at Columbia and Harvard
$4,000. .E..
The maximum for instruction is
ss,5o0, but eight colleges pay less
than $1,000 while In sixty-one the
maximum Is S1,500 the amount
paid elementary public school
teachers for their first years work
in New York and several other cit
les.
Salary increases since 1914 the
report states, ranged from $500 to
$4,000 for full professors and from
s75 to s1,500, for instructors.
while increases In tuition ranged
from 81 TO $3.50.
Mr. Barnes analysis of the re-
port in part. follows:
"While 1853 or 275 colleges re-
porting tuition facts have raised
tuition since 1914, not one
of them is charging anywhere near
what 1t costs. Again, while note
worthy increases in maximum sal
aries have been made by many coll
leges, the great majority are still
paying far less than a growing
wage.
Everyone Is agreed that the
ability of the colleges to do their
work depends first upon the abiI-
ity and personality of their facul-
ties. Ability and personality now
come high--hlgher than any col
leges have been paying until quite
recently. and much higher than
most colleges are paying today.
A full professor on $1,000 or $4,000
a year--and eighteen report less
than s2.000-eannot, no matter
how self-sacrificing he is. do the
growing necessary to fulfill the
contract which his college makes
when It exchanges instruction for
. students time and money.
ION the other hand. the ques-
ton arises whether those who are
fortunate enough to go to college
should not pay more nearly what |
It costs to be educated II having
tuition too low or free meant only |
,axing the rich and the dead. per-
haps 1t might be accepted as nec-
assary; but it means taxing the |
faculty. reducing the preparation
of teachers, reducing the number
who are willing to go into teach
ng. reducing the benefits for stud
snts. and, some say, reducing the |
sraduate's sense Of obligation 20 |
society,""