<table border="0" width="500" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td colspan="3"><img height="117" border="0" width="600" alt="" src="/id0904f67a8014562b" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"></td> <td width="187"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="375"> <h2 class="style5">Saving o’ the Green with Summer Session</h2> <p>If you’re interested in saving money on college — and who isn’t? — you might want to encourage your student to take a class or two during SIUE’s summer session.</p> <p>Under Illinois’ guaranteed tuition law, students’ tuition costs are fixed for four years from the time they begin their college studies. But colleges are not VCRs — college costs tend to rise each year, rather that remain level or drop. So each year, entering students typically pay higher tuition rates that those who entered the previous year. Students entering their fifth year of studies in fall 2008 will pay the same tuition rates as students entering as new freshmen in fall 2008.</p> <p>(Fee rates are not covered by the guaranteed tuition plan, and rates are subject to change from year to year.)</p> <p>To illustrate, following is the tuition cost for three credit hours taken by a student who entered SIUE in fall 2004, then takes additional classes in fall 2008*, the first semester after the guaranteed tuition period ends:</p> <table border="0"> <tr> <td width="97"> <div align="right"><strong>Credit Hours</strong></div> </td> <td width="125"> <div align="right"><strong>Fall '04 Tuition</strong></div> </td> <td width="129"> <div align="right"><strong>Fall '08* Tuition</strong></div> </td> <td width="118"> <div align="right"><strong>Difference in $</strong></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div align="right">3</div> </td> <td> <div align="right">$ 402.00</div> </td> <td> <div align="right">$ 565.30</div> </td> <td> <div align="right">$ 163.30</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div align="right">6</div> </td> <td> <div align="right">804.00</div> </td> <td> <div align="right">1,130.60</div> </td> <td> <div align="right">326.60</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div align="right">9</div> </td> <td> <div align="right">1,206.00</div> </td> <td> <div align="right">1,695.90</div> </td> <td> <div align="right">489.90</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div align="right">12</div> </td> <td> <div align="right">1,608.00</div> </td> <td> <div align="right">2,261.20</div> </td> <td> <div align="right">653.20</div> </td> </tr> </table> <p>* projected numbers, subject to change.</p> <p>The good news is that the longer students are in college, the more likely they are to take courses during the summer, which helps to keep them on track to graduate in four years or less.</p> <p>So as your student spends more time on campus, particularly in the summer, you might encourage him or her to take a course or two or three during the summer, and to take advantage of the extra study time while he or she is waiting to change laundry loads.</p> <p>To help drive home the point, we've prepared a little ditty that can be downloaded on the SIUE Summer Session Web site, www.siue.edu/summer. (The lyric is posted, too, so you can sing along if you like.)</p> <p></p> <p></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="40"></td> <td valign="top" width="75"> <h3 class="style1">SIUE Bookstore<br /> Available Online</h3> <p>The SIUE Bookstore offers online ordering and shipping to the address of your choice! For details,<br /> <a href="http://www.siuebookstore.com/wum4/viewer?ACTION=HomePage" class="style6" target="_blank">click here</a>.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="40" colspan="2"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="2"> <p><a href="http://www.siue.edu/prospectivestudents/parents_newsletter_index.shtml">Click here</a> to view back issues of the Parent Connection newsletter.</p> <p>Published by:<br /> SIUE Office of Student Affairs<br /> 2306 Rendleman Hall<br /> SIUE<br /> Edwardsville, IL 62026</p> <h4></h4> <p></p> </td> <td></td> </tr></table>