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Vol.3, Issue 16
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
January 24,1990
Tuition Increase Is Lowest
Percentage In 13 Years
By William J. Johnson
Lehigh University Writers' Group
Lehigh's 1990-91 tuition increase will be the lowest
percentage in 13 years, and additional scholarship funds
will help offset the increase for many students.
At its quarterly meeting last Friday, Lehigh's trustees
approved a 7.75-percent increase in tuition, from $13,550
to $14,600. Total tuition, room and board charges next
year for most undergraduates will total $19,230, an
increase of 7.3 percent.
At the same time, scholarships for undergraduates
funded by the university will increase nearly 14 percent,
from $10 million to $11.4 million.        • _.
Lehigh President Peter Likins said many efforts to
improve Lehigh's educational programs and facilities over
the past year were paid for through gifts and grants or by
reallocating funds freed up by a university-wide resource
management review. These sources of funds kept the
tuition increase lower than it otherwise would have been,
Likins said.
"In addition to focusing resources more directly on our
mission of providing excellence in education and research,
Lehigh also continues to call on alumni, friends,
corporations and private foundations for additional
scholarship funds to help cushion costs to students," he
said. "The response has been gratifying."
PERCENTAGE GROWTH IN TUITION
Key:
Year
% Increase
Annual Tuition
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1977-78
7.75%
$3,825
1981-82
18.91%
$6,100
1990-91
7.75%
$14,600
As an example of this response, Likins reported that of
the approximately $60 million donated by alumni over the
past four years, 25 percent of that amount was earmarked
either for scholarships or for endowment of future
scholarships.
Over the same period, Lehigh increased the number of
students receiving university scholarship money by 190,
despite increases in costs and little real increase in state
and federal financial aid for students. About 45 percent of
Lehigh students receive some form of aid.
"There is a big difference between the price we charge
and the cost of a Lehigh education," Likins said, "and
that's why we are so grateful for the support we receive
from our alumni and friends." The total cost of operating
Lehigh University in the 1990-91 academic year will be
$32,200 per student, or nearly $13,000 more than each
student will pay.
Likins, who often has said that the spiraling cost of
higher education is an issue that should be addressed at the
national level, noted that Lehigh is doing its part to control
tuition increases by establishing a resource allocation
review process. He intends that the process will lead to a
"culture change" at Lehigh in which all existing
programs and personnel are reviewed annually in light of
the university's central mission and priorities.
In March, Likins reduced his top management team
from 12 to 10 and appointed a panel of trustees and
academic leaders to help the university review its resource
allocation process. Since then, a net reduction of 18
administrative positions has been accomplished, and as a
result of these and program changes, Lehigh was able to
reallocate $1 million in the 1990-91 budget for purposes
more focused on the university's top goals in education
and research.
"In the long term, we will have established an
environment in which clearly defined goals can be
achieved with as little impact as possible on the tuition
bills students pay," said Likins.
One of Lehigh's priorities is to attract and retain top
faculty, Likins noted, which can be difficult for a
university competing for professors with leading U.S.
colleges and universities. Faculty salaries lost ground to
inflation in the 1970s and never quite recovered, Likins
said, but the good news for next year is that despite the
lowest percentage increase in tuition in 13 years, faculty
compensation will increase by an average of 10 percent.
In The College Of Engineering
Sawyers Named Associate Dean
Kenneth N. Sawyers, professor of
mechanical engineering and mechanics,
has been named
associate dean for
undergraduate
affairs in the College
of Engineering and
Applied Science.
His appointment,
effective
immediately, was
announced by dean
Alan W. Pense.
Sawyers'
responsibilities will
include coordinating advising
undergraduates and overseeing
programs for parents, curriculum
development, professional
accreditation, and the scheduling of
college-wide courses. He replaces
George E. Kane, who died suddenly last
semester.
"I am pleased to welcome Ken,"
Sawyers
said Pense. "He brings to this job 20
years of experience with students and
undergraduate engineering education as
well as a strong background in
engineering science."
A member of the faculty since 1969,
Sawyers specializes in applied
mathematics, finite elasticity and
stability. He has written more than 20
articles on topics in his field.
Sawyers began his career as a
mathematical physicist with Stanford
Research Institute after earning his
Ph.D. in applied mathematics from
Brown University. He also has a
bachelor's degree in engineering
sciences from Illinois Institute of
Technology.
He is a member of the American
Academy of Mechanics, Tau Beta Pi
national engineering honorary society,
and Sigma Xi national research
honorary society.
Debaters Match Wits With World's Best
Seniors Erin A. McGarry and Andrew
G. Baker have revived a Lehigh tradition -
and done it with style. As freshmen they
began teaching themselves to debate, an
activity that had formally ceased on
campus decades before.
Four years later, after winning the
American Parliamentary Debate
Association's national competition at the
University of Chicago last April, McGarry
and Baker traveled to Glasgow, Scotland
as the first Lehigh students to participate in
the World Championship Debates. The
competition, held Dec. 28 through Jan. 4,
featured 198 teams from around the globe.
The debaters included teams from
Australia, Hong Kong and Moscow, and
American teams from Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, Penn, and Smith College.
Not only were McGarry and Baker able
to match wits with the world's best
debaters, but while in Glasgow they
learned about Scottish culture, took in the
countryside and met Princess Anne who
attended the final rounds of the
competition.
The official standings of the debate had
not been announced at press time, but
McGarry believes she and Baker placed
somewhere in the top 75 teams.
McGarry was pleased with the pair's
performance, noting that the Glasgow
debates differed in format from the ones
they have participated in here in the states.
While both styles are extemporaneous,
McGarry described the Glasgow debates as
more rhetorical and philosophical that she
and Baker were used to.
"The first round we were taken back. It
was like nothing we'd ever debated
before," McGarry explained. After a few
rounds they became more comfortable
with the style of debating and went on to
do well.
With the enthusiasm of a pilgrim
returning from the holy land, McGarry
hopes to instill the importance of "the art
of argument" in the debate team's new
recruits. She has resolved to "build a
stronger tradition (of debating) at Lehigh -
and teach (underclassmen) this kind of
debate," she said.
McGarry, an accounting major from
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