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But by 1986, the state college propor
tion for non-resident undergraduates
cost about one-fourth of one UNL credit
hour: $31.50, compared to $119 at UNL.
As of this fall, a resident student
taking 30 credit hours at UNL pays
$1,342.50, excluding fees. A similar
state college student pays $990. A
Creighton student pays $2,550.
UNL’s tuition rates can’t be compared
with tuition rates at the state colleges,
UNL officials say.
UNL has higher tuition becuase it
offers a wider variety of courses, said
Harry Allen, director of UNL Institu
tional Research.
“We would expect them to be less
expensive because they have a simpler
program,” Allen said. “We don’t view
ourselves in competition with state
colleges, and they don’t with us.”
Anne Scheerer, Creighton’s dean of
summer sessions and director of in
stitutional research, agreed.
"While we try to be competitive, we
still have to control costs,” she said.
“We’d like to see the gap close very
much, but that’s really just pie in the
sky."
Creighton enrollment has declined
from a recent high in 1983 of 6,300
students .,o 5,900 students last fall.
"There’s been no bloodbath,” Sche
erer said. But she said she thought
faculty numbers have declined slightly.
She did not have figures on faculty
numbers.
This fall’s enrollment at UNL is
expected to decline slightly from last
year’s 23,899, which was down from the
1985 fall enrollment of 24,020.
"The economy of the state has been
poor,” Allen said. "A number of students
who otherwise may have gone to UNL
maybe can’t afford to, so they may stay
closer to home and attend a state
college.”
According to statistics from the
Nebraska Coordinating Commission for
Postsecondary Education, three in
dependent colleges in 1985 had smaller
budgets than the previous year. Bellevue
College, Clarkson College of Nursing in
Omaha and Concordia Teachers College
in Seward.
Last year, Oberg said, four did,
including York College, Union College
in Lincoln and, for a second year,
Concordia. The commission did not
have 1986-87 statistics.
Meanwhile, budgets for the state
colleges and the NU system steadily
increased.
NU receives $176,241,296 in state
allocations this year — about five
times the allocations of the state col
lege system, which receives $28,448,844.
However, in the last 10 years, the state
colleges’ share has risen 79.8 percent,
compared with NU’s, which has risen
74.8 percent, said Kathy Tenopir of the
Legislature’s fiscal office.
“On the whole,” Tenopir said, “The
state colleges have gotten some more
percentage wise each year than the
university.”
But the private colleges receive no
state general-fund allocations. Nebra
ska is one of two states that does not
allow state aid for tuition grants for
students attending private colleges,
Scheerer said.
These factors contribute to the en
rollment shift from private colleges,
Oberg said. He said Nebraska taxpayers
are paying more simply to hire more
teachers at the state colleges to cope
with more students.
All state colleges showed an increase
in full-time faculty positions from 1985
to 1986, said Ardis Burkholder, informa
tion resource specialist for the Nebra
ska State College Office.
Kearney State added about 12 faculty
positions. This year, Oberg said, Kear
ney State will add 20-30 positions.
From the fall of 1985 to the fall of 1986,
Burkholder said, the state college
system’s enrollment increased from
14,875 to 15,290. At Kearney State,
which Oberg calls a student’s "strong
second choice" to UNL and the private
colleges, enrollment increased from
8,725 to 8,816.
Enrollment at the state colleges will
increase this year also, Oberg said.
The student base in Nebraska has
not changed much, Oberg said. More
studentsjusi are opung lor me cneaper
state colleges, he said. Although high
school enrollments are down, more
women and non-traditional students
are making up the difference.
“Tuition gaps between institutions
are very serious things,” Oberg said.
Taxpayers are paying for the students
who choose state colleges over private
colleges for tuition reasons, he said.
Private colleges receive no state alloca
tions, he said, and in some colleges
faculty positions have had to be cut.
“This hurts taxpayers,” Oberg said.
“One of the big, new state spending
expenses has been to finance increased
enrollment. If we had stable enrollment,
the money could go for other things."
However, Oberg said, Gov. Kay Orr
and the Legislature have made steps
this year to correct the tuition gap.
Based on Orr’s recommendations
this year for closing the gap, the
Legislature made similar recommenda
tions in the appropriations bill for
1987-89.
Phil Hovis, budget analyst for tne
Legislature’s fiscal office, said the bill
took into account a recommended 2
percent tuition increase for UNL and a
4 percent tuition increase for the state
colleges.
Tuition rates ultimately are decided
by the NU Board of Regents for UNL, the
University of Nebraska at Omaha and
the NU Medical Center and by the
Board of Trustees for the state college
system.
The Regents approved a 2 percent
tuition increase for UNL at their June
meeting. The Board of Trustees approv
ed an increase close to 4 percent at its
June meeting.
Gordon-Gessner said Nebraska tax
payers aren’t paying too much for state
college faculty positions now, but that
eventually they could. UNL has not
been affected as much by the en
rollment shifts as the private colleges,
she said.
"For the private colleges,” she said,
"if tuition becomes so great, we’re
going to lose the private-college alter
native, and that would be unfortunate.
