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Clemson students face tuition, fee hikes this fall
Jun 23, 2016, 11:34 AM
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CLEMSON — Clemson University trustees Thursday set tuition and fee increases for the 2016-17 academic year, including 3.14 percent, or $218, increase per semester, for undergraduate students from South Carolina and a 4.27 percent, or $700, increase per semester, for undergraduate students from out of state. Graduate students will pay an average of 6.09 percent more for tuition.
Student housing and dining plans will increase by an average of 5 percent across the board, an average of $80 per semester for dining and $167 per semester for housing. Actual costs will depend on the residence hall and meal plan selected.
Revenues from the increases will cover cost-of-living and state-mandated health and retirement costs, increased utility safety and security costs and facility stewardship.
Clemson consistently is ranked nationally among the top public universities and the school of choice for thousands of high school graduates as indicated by record applications. The administration’s focus is on maintaining the “Clemson Experience” and ensuring academic quality through protecting student-to-faculty ratios, class availability and higher graduation rates.
“We are committed to protecting the high level of academic quality that our students have come to expect and ensuring that students are able to get the courses they need to graduate on time. Tuition is crucial in funding our efforts to offer the best college experience possible for our students,” said President James P. Clements. “We also are committed to keeping Clemson affordable, and we appreciate the support of the state and leaders of the General Assembly that has enabled us to keep this tuition increase low.”
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Orange Beast [6523]
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Re: Clemson students face tuition, fee hikes this fall
Jun 23, 2016, 11:54 AM
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Football tickets too??
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Oculus Spirit [39330]
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That's just peachy
Jun 23, 2016, 12:43 PM
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Thanks for waiting until my oldest had enrolled to start this August ...great timing CU , lol .
I'm gonna start a " Go Fund Me " page .
Oh well , I'd pay more if they demanded it for her tuition ...this is CLEMSON !
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Re: That's just peachy
Jun 23, 2016, 10:35 PM
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Get used to it. They raise tuition every couple years.
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Oculus Spirit [39330]
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Re: That's just peachy
Jun 23, 2016, 10:53 PM
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Oh I'm sure . I will be prepared . The cool part in all of this money spent is that it will bring me closer to Clemson , a place I never want to leave when I'm there .
So pleased to have my oldest girl enrolled , couldn't be prouder.
Money well spent !
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Orange Blooded [2841]
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Re: Clemson students face tuition, fee hikes this fall
Jun 23, 2016, 1:03 PM
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They have gone up about 3% every calendar year since I've been at Clemson, and I can only assume it will keep going up.
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Re: Clemson students face tuition, fee hikes this fall
Jun 23, 2016, 1:26 PM
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For all posters info., FYI
Blame our esteemed General Assembly! They have NEVER met the state funding formula for higher education. When I started teaching sixteen years ago at Midlands Tech. College thirty-nine percent of our budget came the state. Today less than nine percent is funded! Clemson has suffered the same degree of reductions. This is the major reason why student costs continue increasing. Do not blame the Trustees entirely.
Go Tigers!
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Valley Protector [1463]
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Re: Clemson students face tuition, fee hikes this fall
Jun 23, 2016, 3:53 PM
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Every state I am aware of "underfunds" college education. My experience is that is it more of a spending problem than a revenue problem for colleges.
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Orange Blooded [2332]
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Re: Clemson students face tuition, fee hikes this fall
Jun 23, 2016, 1:49 PM
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For all posters info., FYI
Blame our esteemed General Assembly! They have NEVER met the state funding formula for higher education. When I started teaching sixteen years ago at Midlands Tech. College thirty-nine percent of our budget came the state. Today less than nine percent is funded! Clemson has suffered the same degree of reductions. This is the major reason why student costs continue increasing. Do not blame the Trustees entirely.
Go Tigers!
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Re: Clemson students face tuition, fee hikes this fall
Jun 23, 2016, 1:22 PM
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As a May '16 graduate, I can honestly say tuition has gone up every year I've been at Clemson.
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Paw Warrior [5016]
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Re: Clemson students face tuition, fee hikes this fall
Jun 23, 2016, 1:39 PM
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Wait so inflation is real?
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BIG Education Bubble Crash
Jun 23, 2016, 1:40 PM
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When will the BIG Education Bubble Crash? Everyone complains about Big Oil, Big Pharma, etc. When will these astronomical education costs reach a point when its no longer worth it. Universities create degree programs so everyone can get into college. But what can you do with $100k in student loan debt and a Mid-Eastern Philosophy degree?
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they cood raise the percentage of out-of-staters...
Jun 23, 2016, 1:55 PM
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more than juan way to skin a fiscal cat.
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TigerNet Icon [152619]
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Like this gentleman?
Jun 23, 2016, 2:07 PM
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TigerNet Champion [117416]
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absolutely & that's a fine carry on the gent is sporting...
Jun 23, 2016, 2:12 PM
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wonder how many carpets they had to kill to make it?
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If they had done this years ago, maybe deadsolidperfect
Jun 23, 2016, 2:13 PM
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would have been granted admission to our fine university instead of having to settle for that women's college in rural Virginia?
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TigerNet Champion [117416]
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idk, bob...
Jun 23, 2016, 2:18 PM
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but a boy can dream.
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Orange Blooded [3788]
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It'd be a lot cheaper for freshmen
Jun 23, 2016, 2:13 PM
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if they were allowed to live off campus and not have meal plans. Rent and groceries are much cheaper off campus.
The cheapest dorm rooms for freshmen were the $2,510/semester (equivalent of $546/month for around 4.6 months, their math not mine) last year, and the cheapest meal plan was $1,840 (around $400/month, my math)
You can share an apartment in Clemson with your own bedroom for as low as $350/month plus utilities, and according to the USDA the average grocery bill for one person is around $300/month and honestly that's probably high for South Carolina.
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Athletic Dir [1185]
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The down side is you have the apartment 12 months, not
Jun 23, 2016, 5:22 PM
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the nine months on campus. Plus power, cable, deposits...... My kids never found one under $400.
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Orange Blooded [3788]
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Depends on where you want to live
Jun 24, 2016, 2:09 PM
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I think you can get into university village for 325/room and I lived in a 2 bedroom townhouse for a while that was 700 total. Some places even offer 9 month leases for a slightly higher rate.
I'm not saying every freshman should live off campus, but if money is really tight you can save a lot of money by living somewhere cheap, watching antenna TV and eating a lot of pasta.
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TigerNet Icon [152619]
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Maybe keeping this would have helped keep costs down?
Jun 23, 2016, 2:34 PM
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You play big, you pay big.
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the home of dsp for his first bill wilhelm baseball camps...***
Jun 23, 2016, 2:44 PM
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Well, this is a grand lie:
Jun 23, 2016, 3:29 PM
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"The administration’s focus is on maintaining the “Clemson Experience” and ensuring academic quality through protecting student-to-faculty ratios, class availability and higher graduation rates."
No, it's to keep giving upper level admins exuberant salaries. Salaries for admins at Clemson have gone up over $100 million in five years. Many have enjoyed a pay increases over the past ten years of up to 130 percent.
Meanwhile, professor salaries haven't increased that much. They seen a rise, but it's more commensurate with the rest of the country. Since 2002, Clemson's cost to attend has soared above the national average for tuition and fees. Back then, it was cheaper to go there from out of state than it is to attend as an in-state student today.
Clemson officials try to dress this up with all sorts of claims of state funding cuts, keeping the education up, and cost of living, but the continuing massive increase of their upper level employees' salaries tell a much different story.
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Orange Blooded [3788]
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Link?***
Jun 24, 2016, 2:10 PM
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Tiger Titan [48527]
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What would you like a link to?
Jun 24, 2016, 9:19 PM
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The numbers I cite come from Clemson's own salary reports, budget reports, and tuition cost history. They're all listed on various university web sites.
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Orange Beast [6523]
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Re: Clemson students face tuition, fee hikes this fall
Jun 23, 2016, 4:49 PM
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Until government gets out of the education business there will be no true price discovery or improvement in quality.
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Nothing....absolutely nothing has increased in price in the
Jun 23, 2016, 5:28 PM
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last 15 years the way college tuition has. It's criminal, and I blame Barker and his top 20 push, and the country club campus construction that went along with with.
I still have the receipt from my last semester's Clemson tuition paid in 1998----$1500. If tuition had just kept up with basic inflation it should be around $2200 now....instead, it's $6700 for in-state.
And no, my degree is not more valuable. I'm proud of my Clemson Degree, but I can tell you it carries no more weight in 2016 than it did in 1998 with a potential employer.
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Oculus Spirit [43130]
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grad school cost me $300 a semester
Jun 23, 2016, 9:08 PM
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and they paid me $500 a month to teach strength of materials lab
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Orange Blooded [3788]
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I take issue with most of your post
Jun 24, 2016, 2:30 PM
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In South Carolina, Clemson degrees probably don't carry much more weight than they did in 1998, but in other states they absolutely do. Major corporations that used to not even know Clemson existed now recruit on campus. I have friends who got great jobs in Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, Louisville, etc that probably wouldn't have received a first interview 10 years ago.
Additionally, most of the construction didn't start until after Barker retired, and most of the things happening now are necessary because infrastructure and building maintenance were essentially ignored on campus in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.
The LIFE scholarship didn't exist in 1998, so if you're reasonably smart, your net in-state tuition actually comes out to $4,200/semester, not $6,700 (if you're a STEM Major with the Palmetto Fellows scholarship your last 3 years will only cost $1,700/semester out of pocket).
I don't like how much tuition has increased since 1998, but there are a bunch of reasons for it and several of them are justified (though admittedly some are more questionable)
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It is indeed borderline criminal.
Jun 25, 2016, 9:51 AM
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Clemson is certainly not the only offender, but I would rank us as one of the worst. And you are correct, this began in 2002 when Barker fully latched on to the Top 20 quest. The previous CFO raised questions about it with Barker and the Board because he felt it unfair to students. He was forced out in 2004 as a result. His successor has seen a nearly $200,000 pay increase over the last ten years.
That shows you where this is going. Play ball, keep your mouth shut, and reap the benefits of our tuition increases.
Coot U is just as bad as well. They just voted one of their largest tuition hikes in history. These people don't care because when the college loan bubble bursts, they'll still be set. And the rest of the world has just stood by and let it all happen.
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