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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
Tuition could be increasing $700 for students at the Urbana-Champaign campus starting July 1, 2006, according to a document obtained by The Daily Illini. The same document also revealed tuition increases of $1,000 at the Springfield campus and $600 at the Chicago campus for the 2006-2007 academic year.
The document said the recommended tuition increase would bring an additional $27 million to the University during the 2007 fiscal year, with $16.1 million coming from the Urbana-Champaign campus.
University spokesperson Tom Hardy would not confirm the authenticity of the document, but did state in an e-mail exchange that after viewing the document "it would be inaccurate to report that the numbers contained in the document … are the tuition rates that eventually will be recommended to the BOT."
University President B. Joseph White said during a Feb. 14 interview that he expected a tuition increase to be announced by the Board during their April 11 meeting.
"Even in the face of significant tuition increases of the past and surely those that will come, which by the way we impose only to maintain the quality of the University of Illinois, I think we offer one of the greatest educational values in America and I'm very proud of it," White said during a WILL-TV interview on Feb. 14.
White also said in an e-mail exchange that only the Board has the final authority to set tuition and fees after University administration recommendations.
The document is titled "FY2007 Tuition Recommendations (Jan 06 BOT Meeting)," and also has the text "BOT would act on FY07 tuition recommendations at January 2006 Board meeting." However, no tuition increases appeared on the Jan. 19 Board meeting agenda.
White said tuition recommendations to the Board were delayed because the University "had a sense in January that there might be proposed budget action from the (state government) affecting higher education and (the University) wanted to see more cards. This turned out to be true."
The document said the recommended tuition increase would bring an additional $27 million to the University during the 2007 fiscal year, with $16.1 million coming from the Urbana-Champaign campus.
University spokesperson Tom Hardy would not confirm the authenticity of the document, but did state in an e-mail exchange that after viewing the document "it would be inaccurate to report that the numbers contained in the document … are the tuition rates that eventually will be recommended to the BOT."
University President B. Joseph White said during a Feb. 14 interview that he expected a tuition increase to be announced by the Board during their April 11 meeting.
"Even in the face of significant tuition increases of the past and surely those that will come, which by the way we impose only to maintain the quality of the University of Illinois, I think we offer one of the greatest educational values in America and I'm very proud of it," White said during a WILL-TV interview on Feb. 14.
White also said in an e-mail exchange that only the Board has the final authority to set tuition and fees after University administration recommendations.
The document is titled "FY2007 Tuition Recommendations (Jan 06 BOT Meeting)," and also has the text "BOT would act on FY07 tuition recommendations at January 2006 Board meeting." However, no tuition increases appeared on the Jan. 19 Board meeting agenda.
White said tuition recommendations to the Board were delayed because the University "had a sense in January that there might be proposed budget action from the (state government) affecting higher education and (the University) wanted to see more cards. This turned out to be true."
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