Tagged - Tuition
expenses
UR Essentials: student aid or money grab?
From a business perspective, UR Essentials is a gold mine: funnel every student through the bookstore, guarantee revenue, and drive foot traffic for additional sales. But from a student’s perspective, it’s forced consumption with no added value. Read More
Class Action
UR settles lawsuit: partial tuition reimbursement offered to some students
Carstairs alleged that the University failed to provide its promised thirty additional hours of out-of-class student work per credit hour to students taking online classes during the pandemic. Read More
finance
No more Mel Sauce weekend
My tuition is paying for barrels upon barrels of Mel Sauce for this weekend alone. Do we really need a Mel Sauce slip and slide? Read More
college
Why are you in college?
What if we don’t need college at all? What if we do? Let’s explore a bit. Read More
Admissions
Let’s talk about the cost of UR
Our tuition costs more than Harvard’s and Princeton’s. I don’t know about you, but that’s insane to me. Read More
humor
UR Approved for Tuition Increase
“If I’m lucky, I’ll be paying $100k in tuition by the time I graduate!” Read More
good business
Free tuition? C’mon, UR is being too generous.
We all know that the more expensive something is, the more undoubtedly prestigious it is, duh. Read More
financial aid
UR announces tuition rate for 2021-2022 year
An email sent by the administration on March 15 announced that “[the] tuition rate for students in the College will increase by 1.9 percent over last year, to $58,276.” Room and board will also face a 1.9 percent increase to $17,388. Read More
academics
Winter and summer sessions can’t just go on, business as usual
UR has chosen to allow expensive tuition to be a barrier, making winter session practically irrelevant for students on any sort of financial aid. Read More
guillotine
New student initiative for tuition increase to fund totally unrelated guillotines
Top UR administrators, last seen diving Scrooge McDuck-style into a swimming pool filled with 2019’s executive bonuses, were unavailable for comment. Read More
