Letter to the Editor: Explain tuition hikes
(03/18/15 12:00am)
Last week’s Thresher (March 11) presented an article of special importance, namely the staggering increase in Rice University’s tuition, evidently 135 percent over the last 15 years. To explain the seemingly inexplicable, Kathy Collins, vice president for finance, gives the primary reason as “educating students, faculty salaries, library resources and other operational expenses.” I think most professors at Rice would be happily amazed by anything close to a salary increase rate of 135 percent over the last 15 years.