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美国大学校园勤工俭学

New report on affording the cost of college: federal work study jobs can give you the chance to work part-time while you are in school, but a school has to participate in the government program, and not all students qualify for it.

Private school, in particular, is expensive. Sticker price （标价）including room and board for the average U.S. private college, more than 42,000 per year.

But at Blackburn College in Illinois, it's just under 24,000 per year. The price comes down when students work at it.

Some universities are starting to look like resorts with pricy amenities（昂贵设施） like SPAs rock walls and swimming pools, and they are passing along the bill to students.

Tuition expenses have risen more than 1200 percent since 1978, but Blackburn College in Illinois is keeping tuition cost low. A new way to pay for it. Student work crews. You can see where students for years have been actually laying the bricks.

We do maintain a pretty lean organizational stuffing structure, and that is done with the expectation that we do use students to supplement （补充）those labor needs.

And it's not just construction jobs. 90 percent of the student body works ten hours per week on campus. In everything from gardening to security to administrative positions. IN exchange, they get tuition credit.

But the parents say I don't want my kid to go to school to work. I don't want them to be distracted. I want them to go to spend four years to learn.

We do have parents that question that piece of it, and what we explain to them, that this is an improvement, this is an improvement to their overall portfolio（投资组合） that will make them more marketable upon graduation.