2008 Woodie Awards
Tuition increase set for 2007-2008 school year
Students will also pay a parking fee
Bryan Jackson
Issue date: 4/20/07 Section: News
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Tuition at Rockhurst is going to increase by eight percent to $22,000 for the next year, an increase of $1,800 from the $20,200 of the 2006-2007 academic year. Despite the $900 a semester increase in tuition, Rockhurst remains one of the cheapest of the Catholic, Jesuit universities in the United States. Rockhurst is nearly $2,000 cheaper than Creighton University in Omaha and nearly $4,000 cheaper than Saint Louis University, the two closest Jesuit universities to Kansas City.
For the most part, the tuition increase is being met with mixed reactions from students. Obviously students never want to pay more money, but the practicality of the tuition increase isn't lost on most students.
"I understand why they are doing it," said freshman Eric Weaver. "It just sucks having to shell out more money next year."
Also for the 2007-2008 academic year, Rockhurst students will have to pay a parking fee for the first time.
Up until now parking on campus had been free of charge, but beginning next semester students will be required to pay a $100 parking fee each semester to park on campus.
According to Rockhurst President Father Thomas Curran, the money made from the parking fees will be used to construct additional parking. Although President Curran couldn't say where the new parking would be at this point, he did say it would be, "on or adjacent to campus."
"Parking has long been a problem at Rockhurst," Curran said. "And this will hopefully help correct that problem."
Additional parking might not be enough to sell some students on the benefits of the parking fee. Some students feel that free parking was a great selling point for the university.
"As a non-traditional student, free parking was something that attracted me to Rockhurst," said senior Townley Morrison.
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