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Message: [QUOTE="cabbie191, post: 5076894, member: 417"] I went to private college (Clark University, Worcester, MA) from 1969 - 1974, taking one year off to work in order to afford my last two years. I think tuition and expenses in those days was in the neighborhood of $3,000 but that might be a bit on the high side. These were the days of Vietnam War protests and there were quite a few disruptions on Clark's campus. This led to a chat with my uncle who was a Spanish professor at Brown University. He recalled that when he was an undergraduate student at Amherst College, there were students protests that temporarily shut down the campus. When I asked what it was about, he said students were protesting a proposed $25 increase in tuition. My jaw dropped and he could see the incredulousness all over my face. He smiled and then said - "You have to understand that the existing tuition was $250. What the school was proposing was a 10% increase. It was a significant jump for us even though it seems a pittance by today's costs." Perspective - a life lesson learned. [/QUOTE]