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Reference materials

• From 08-09
  • Tuition 101 - from 1-16-09 meeting, with some additions
  • Tuition structure for resident undergrads - per-hour and full-time rates
  • Nonresident undergraduate tuition guarantee: About || Student behaviors (passworded)
  • About tuition and fees -- current and historical rates, peer comparisons, student fee plan, annual "about tuition and financial aid,"  percent change year by year, more
  • Course fees by college, level, course subject.  Also see presentations for 3/09 meeting.

• Aid profiles for degree-seeking undergraduates -- By residency and family financial capability -- on the admissions/financial aid webpage - http://www.colorado.edu/pba/adm/

• Major products of 04-05 and 05-06 TAABs
• Summary of recommendations
• High tuition, high aid model for residents. Financial aid fastest-growing portion of budget
• Non-resident tuition guarantee
• (Not really TAAB, but related: tuition rate for graduate students on appointment as a TA or RA )
• Continue and increase use of differential tuition rates by school and college.
• Consider total cost of attendance in setting tuition and aid
• Consider debt at graduation vs. starting income as a metric of sufficiency of aid
• 7/8/05: Update on events in May, June, July 2005
• 5/05: Tuition rates and financial aid for Colorado undergraduates: Recommendations of the Tuition and Aid Board 2004-2005.  Full report, 8 pp, including proposed "comprehensive plan" for financial aid modelled after U of California. 
• 12/2/04, premises, general conclusions, and actions to increase resident undergraduate tuition rates by double or more over six years

• Financing CU-Boulder
• The Cost of a Quality Education: How Much and Who Pays
• The role of out of state students at CU-Boulder
• Out of state undergraduate enrollment decline to 2005

• UCB tuition rates
• By school/college, and prior six years
• Base, 1972 to present
• Bursar, full detail of current rates
• Other PBA postings about tuition and fees

• State rules and implementation
• Tuition and fees in CCHE policy, SB04-189, and CRS
• UCB Institutional Plan for Student Fees
• Q&A on COF, Colorado Opportunity Fund, stipends

• Peer comparisons on tuition or tuition and fees (not aid)
• Click here for postings on all of...
• State appropriations per in-state student FTE per fiscal year
• Tuition and fees at Colorado private and AAU U.S. public institutions
• CU-Boulder tuition and fees vs. AAU U.S. public mean, over time
• Tuition and fees at AAU U.S. public institutions, over time (Excel)
• University of Michigan July, 2005: Tuition and aid increases, budget cuts

• CU groups with related activities
• GTEMS: Graduate Tuition and Enrollment Management Strategy task force of the Graduate School, CU-Boulder.  Report, spring 2004.
• CU System committee on tuition - Silver and Gold Record article, September 22, 2004.

• Quality for Colorado

• Aid -- see the aid primer
• Packaging - February 2005 presentation to the CU Regents, Gwen Eberhard (powerpoint)
• CU-Boulder cost of attendance and aid examples

• National studies and articles
• State Higher Education Finance FY 2003
• Survey Report on State-Sponsored Student Financial Aid, Academic Year 2002-03
• Empty Promises: The Myth of College Access in America
• College on Credit: How Borrowers Perceive their Education Debt
• The College Board: Trends in Student Aid
• Lumina Foundation, Expanding College Access: The Impact of State Finance Strategies (PDF) - The buying power of the federal Pell grant has dropped sharply as college costs have increased, reducing college access for lower-income students. What is the net impact of state finance strategies for higher education on college enrollment? Two-page summary (PDF). February 2004.
• Pell Institute First Annual Status Report, Indicators of Opportunity in Higher Education (PDF)
• Toward Continuous Improvement: Rebuilding the compact between higher education, the public and our elected officials. Larry R. Faulkner, president of the University of Texas at Austin. In National CrossTalk Spring 2005, a web publication of The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.
• College Is a Bad Investment: Pouring more taxpayer money into universities doesn't lead to prosperity. Richard Vedder, professor of economics at Ohio University. Article in June 20, 2005 issue of Forbes.
• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) report from the 2003-04 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, with details on costs and aid for undergraduate students, broken down by institution type. One type is publilc 4-year colleges and universities. The report does not distinguish between in-state and out-of-state students in such schools.
• NCES April, 2003 report on What Colleges Contribute, Institutional Aid to Full-Time Undergraduates Attending 4-year Colelges and Universities.
• The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) profiles on student and state investment in postsecondary education for all 50 states, issued October 2005. These compare students’ costs for tuition and fees with the return to their degrees, as well as the state investment in comparison to the credentials produced by institutions.
• College Board's annual Trends in College Pricing for 2005. Based on the College Board's Annual Survey of Colleges. Provides on up-to-data information on tuition and other expenses associated with attending public and private nonprofit institutions of postsecondary education in the United States.

• Other institutions
• U of Illinois system, Ensuring Quality and Affordability: Tuition and Financial Aid at the University of Illinois
• Long report
• Slides only
• Miami of Ohio: Set in- and out-of-state tuition equal, with guaranteed aid to all in-state
• Illinois 4 year guarantee
• Carolina compact

• Tuition structure
  
• Course fees
• Grad structure plots - Excel
• UG structure w and w/o COF, plots - Excel

Last revision 09/14/09