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Memo: students to pay additional $700 next year/ Decline in state funding precipitates need for hike
By Kiyoshi Martinez
Posted: 3/14/06 Section: News
"Unfortunately, the proposed increase is so modest that we need to continue to rely significantly on increased tuition to maintain the University's academic quality," White said. "We also face a very large deferred maintenance problem - over $700 million - in our academic facilities with little prospective incremental help from the state. We need to find a way to get on top of this problem."
Hardy said the incremental increase will not eliminate all the pressure on tuition and other revenue sources for the University, but it will help.
"This University and other public universities around the state have had to make a lot of strategic re-allocations, cutbacks in the level of spending," Hardy said. "Some of the impact of that is the deferred maintenance of our facilities, courses available and thus larger course sections and a larger faculty-to-student ratio. Those kind of things are documented and well known."
Dorris said that it would be a sad day for him personally if he ever had to vote for a tuition increase, but his mind was not made up yet.
"We're doing the best we can to keep two things in balance," he said. "Giving every qualified student in the state access to the University of Illinois, and keeping the University at a very high-level status."
Jason Koch, Vasanth Sridharan, Danielle Gaines and Nick Escobar contributed to this report.
Hardy said the incremental increase will not eliminate all the pressure on tuition and other revenue sources for the University, but it will help.
"This University and other public universities around the state have had to make a lot of strategic re-allocations, cutbacks in the level of spending," Hardy said. "Some of the impact of that is the deferred maintenance of our facilities, courses available and thus larger course sections and a larger faculty-to-student ratio. Those kind of things are documented and well known."
Dorris said that it would be a sad day for him personally if he ever had to vote for a tuition increase, but his mind was not made up yet.
"We're doing the best we can to keep two things in balance," he said. "Giving every qualified student in the state access to the University of Illinois, and keeping the University at a very high-level status."
Jason Koch, Vasanth Sridharan, Danielle Gaines and Nick Escobar contributed to this report.
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