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After writing a post  earlier this month that 

 (among others) should handle the charging of different tuition rates 

among various programs, I recently got this reply from Mark Springer, interim dean of the university's College of Liberal Arts & School of the Arts.

St. Cloud State had added mass communication to nursing and art -- programs that already charged such "differential tuition."

I'd asked whether the right programs were being charged, and whether the journalism program was really one that required extra charges for technology (compared to equipment-heavy sciences, for example).

How much was market demand a factor? And should all students within a department pay higher tuition when one of the divisions is more prone to use such technology?

I had no real stance on the issue, but was just asking some preliminary questions, so I put the call out for some more opinions.

Here is Springer's response, which I've edited for length.

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After writing a post  earlier this month that asked questions about how St. Cloud State University (among others) should handle the charging of different tuition rates among various programs, I recently got this reply from Mark Springer, interim dean of the university’s College of Liberal Arts & School of the Arts. St. Cloud State had…

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