Tag: tuition

For the past few years, tuition at the University of La Verne has made some significant price jumps. In the past two years, tuition has gone up by five percent each year. The previous year, tuition leaped by 7.9 percent, and the year before that, tuition went up 6.9 percent.

Convening at the Pala Mesa Resort in Fallbrook, Calif., the University of La Verne’s Board of Trustees voted on Sunday in favor of a 3 percent increase in tuition, as well as a 3 percent increase in board services for the 1996-97 school year.

A student graduates from high school, enrolls in college and begins in the fall. At the University of La Verne they will pay $440 for each semester hour. The “poor, starving college student” scenario may take place as the student struggles with tuition bills and thinks about impending loan payments.

While high school tracksters gathered outside, the University of La Verne Board of Trustees came together for its bi-annual meeting in the Presidents Dining Room Saturday.

For all those students who are anxiously awaiting the final decision of how much their ULV tuition will go up next fall, wait no further, the decision has been made. Tuition for the 1992-93 school year will be raised 6.9 percent.

A proposal to increase tuition by 11 percent has many students wondering what this will mean for them.