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Article: Small-college money woes not unusual: Rocky faces challenges in low-income region
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- The Billings Gazette
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- November 4, 2005
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Rocky Mountain College has special challenges that some similarly sized schools in other parts of the country don't.
The region from which Rocky draws it students - Montana, northern Wyoming, eastern Idaho and western North Dakota - has a median income of about $22,000 per adult, said Michael Mace, Rocky's interim president.
Families struggle to send their children to college anywhere and may find it even more difficult to think about a private school like Rocky.
Rocky's tuition is about $15,000 a year. Add room and board and the basic cost to attend Rocky for a year reaches $20,000.
To try to keep the cost for students in line, Mace would like to increase the college's endowment to provide ...