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Time for tuition changes

When I attended WSU in the latter ‘60s, the tuition costs were $125 per semester or $250 per year. This year’s figure for undergraduates is $10,268 for the year, 18 credits maximum per semester.

After leaving WSU I went to Western Washington for graduate school; the cost was a princely $110 per quarter, $88 for undergraduates, no credit limit. The graduate school tuition this year is $3,814 per quarter. And don’t get me started on out-of-state figures at both institutions.

What we are doing to today’s students is downright criminal. All the boomers who consider themselves successful might look at things a little differently had they started out their careers saddled with many thousands of dollars of debt. It’s time to make changes, even if, heaven forbid, higher taxes result!

Ted Wert

Sagle, Idaho

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