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Article: COLUMN: Middle-income families bear burden of increased tuition
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- May 10, 2004
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Brandi Mathiesen
University Wire
05-10-2004
(University Daily Kansan) (U-WIRE) LAWRENCE, Kan. -- From the University of Michigan to Harvard, The New York Times reported, there has been an increase in enrollment of upper-income families and a decrease in attendance from middle-income families. Middle-income families were defined as those whose income is at or below the national median income, $53,000.
The University of Kansas has seen a slight version of this trend.
The Office of Institutional Research and Planning reported in the fall of 2000, 30 percent of the families of incoming freshman made less than $50,000. The percentage of students from these middle-income families dropped to 27 ...