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Volume 98, Number 33
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
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MU tuition hikes decrease over 4 years Percentage change in undergraduate tuition prices 2004-05: Ten years ago for the 2004-05 school year, Marquette's undergrad tuition price stood at $10,175. This amounted to nearly a 5 percent increase in tuition from the previous year.
12.4%
2008-09: The 2008-09 school year witnessed the highest percentage change in tuition during the last decade at 12.4 percent. This increase equates to a $3,050 increase from the 2007-08 school year.
7.5% 5.9%
2009-13: The past four years saw tuition jumps that were more conservative than those of previous years, never rising above a 5 percent jump. The slowing rate of increase was accomplished as a result of the university's attempts to reduce its operating costs.
6.5% 4.7%
4.9% 3.5%
4.5%
4.2%
4.5%
3.7%
2014-15: Next year's tuition increase, announced Thursday in a University News Brief, is the lowest increase since the 2009-10 school year. The increase amounts to a $1,280 jump.
Source: The Office of Institutional Research and Analysis (Common Data Sets)
MU announces 3.7 percent increase for 2014-15 school year
By Rob Gebelhoff and Natalie Wickman
robert.gebelhoff@marquette.edu natalie.wickman@marquette.edu
Brianna Hansen, a junior in the College of Communication, is
a full-time student working one working her way through coljob at WISN-TV and two more lege and taking out huge loans on campus. to finance the “I work from payments. To nvestigative 2 a.m. to noon, hear that the unieport and then I go to versity is addclass,” Hansen said. ing $1,280 to tu“It’s kind of rough, but you ition for the 2014-15 know, college is really expen- school year is still stressful, sive. Scholarships can only despite it being the lowest ingo so far.” crease in four years. Like many other undergradu“I know the university didn’t ates at Marquette, Hansen is make me go here and pay all this
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MU to build new residence for Jesuits with $10M gift Anonymous donation funds construction project, scholarships By Matt Gozun and Melanie Lawder
benjaminmatthew.gozun@marquette.edu melanie.lawder@marquette.edu
With a $10 million contribution from an anonymous donor, Marquette will build a new Jesuit Residence, renovate the center of campus and allocate new funds to need-based scholarships, Interim University President the Rev. Robert A. Wild announced Monday. The renovation project, which
will cost the university $15 million, will build a new Jesuit Residence in the 1400 block of W. Wells St. The present Jesuit Residence, located at 1404 W. Wisconsin Ave., will be torn down to increase campus green space and decrease the surface parking level area between Schroeder Hall and the Alumni Memorial Union. The new residence will be built in the area where the parking lots in front of Schroeder Hall currently sit. The building will face south, toward Wisconsin Avenue, said Brian Dorrington, senior director of university communications, in an email. Of the $10 million, $7.5 million will be donated to the construction of the new Jesuit
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Residence and $2.5 million will finance need-based scholarships. The university could not comment on whether these scholarship funds will be available for students enrolling in the 201415 academic year. “Details are still being worked through with the anonymous donor as to how the scholarship resources will be used,” Dorrington said. The remaining $7.5 million for the renovations will be funded through donations and construction will not begin until the additional money is raised. According to Dorrington, the university does not have an anticipated start date for construction. See Donation, Page 6
Infographic by Maddy Kennedy/madeline.kennedy@marquette.edu
money,” Hansen said. “But I still think it’s a lot. The price of tuition in general is just ridiculous. How do they expect us to pay all this off?” THE SLOWING GROWTH IN TUITION
This year’s tuition increase, which brings the full-year price to $35,480, continues a trend of Marquette’s tuition growth slow-
ing over the past four years. This is the smallest jump in tuition since the increase for the 200910 school year. On top of the tuition increase, the university also announced in a University News Brief that rates for room and board will increase at an average of 2.5 percent. Other prices, such as part-time enrollment, the See Tuition, Page 8
47 percent of voters support Walker
MU Law Poll reports most voters unaware of governor’s opponent By Natalie Wickman
natalie.wickman@marquette.edu
About 47 percent of Wisconsin voters support Republican Gov. Scott Walker while only 41 percent support the presumptive Democratic nominee Mary Burke, according to the most recent Marquette Law Poll released Monday. The poll measured opinions of 802 registered voters statewide, with interviews conducted from
Jan. 20-23. The results have a margin of error of 3.5 percent. The poll chiefly focused on the 2014 governor’s race. Mike Gousha, distinguished fellow in law and public policy at the Marquette Law School, said he thinks college students should involve themselves in order to understand how each candidate’s views will affect them. “I think there are certain issues that are universal, but for young folks, there are other things (like) issues that deal with student debt,” Gousha said. “(See) if candidates are talking about that. If not, it’s not a bad idea to talk to them about it.” See Law Poll, Page 5
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