Ccs Drops Surcharge At Fairchild

Fri., Dec. 11, 1998

From Staff

About 350 military students at Fairchild Air Force Base will no longer be charged a nonresident tuition surcharge, officials with the Community Colleges of Spokane said Thursday.

The CCS, which conducts classes at the base west of Spokane, has dropped a 25 percent surcharge on military students. That would save a full-time student $300 per year.

A full-time resident student pays $503 per quarter; until now, military students had paid $604.

About 350 active duty military students take classes each quarter from the CCS, said Tay Conrad, vice president of CCS business affairs. Although the CCS will lose $35,000 by dropping the surcharge, it believes higher enrollments will make up the difference.

The CCS offers other incentives to military personnel, including resident tuition to dependents. Tuition for Vietnam veterans is frozen at 1964 rates of $84 per quarter; tuition for Persian Gulf veterans is $289.

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