The $50 Fee That Thinned Filipino Enrollment at the U.W.
A Filipino community leader reports only forty students enrolled at the University of Washington, blaming rigid scholarship rules and a new non-resident charge imposed on Filipino students.
According to Dr. Pedro Quianrj, there are forty Filipino students in the University of Washington for the autumn quarter. The reasons for the great decrease in Filipino attendance at the state university are the rigid scholarship standards and the attempt on the part of university officials to impose the $50 non-resident fee upon Filipino students.
“The reasons for the great decrease in Filipino attendance at the state university are the rigid scholarship standards and the attempt on the part of university officials to impose the $50 non-resident fee upon Filipino students.”
A century later, Washington still argues over who counts as a resident for tuition and whether public universities are truly accessible to immigrant and international students. The 1928 complaint shows that barriers to campus were as much financial and political as academic.
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