On November 28, inspite of a raucous protest outside, City University of New York trustees approved series of $300 annual tuition increases through 2015. Student protests included chants like “Abolish the board of trustees” and “CUNY must be free”. Over 5 years the increase will amount to 31 percent.
The month of December met even more colleges with sizable college tuition hikes.
“Students at the University of Connecticut will see their tuition rise 6 percent next year and keep on increasing through 2016.” There will be a more than six percent increase annually until 2016. The reasoning is that they need to hire more teachers and expand course offerings to allow more students to graduate on time.
The University of New Hampshire, Keene State College and Plymouth State University is expected to rise about 3.6 percent per credit hour.
The University of North Carolina is excpected to have a a 10.7 percent increase for in-state students and a 4.6 percent for out-of-state students. This is after a 6.5 percent increase this past year.
The University of Michigan, against student protests, approved a 6.7 percent increase for in-state undergraduate students and 4.9 percent for out-of-state students.
Iowa State University has a announced a 3.75 percent tuition hike in the fall.
“The Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents on Friday approved an 8 percent tuition increase for undergraduate students statewide.”
In these most of these cases, and many others, the schools site a multi-million to billion dollar decrease in government aid and the need to raise tuition. I suspect that this is only the beginning of a huge wave of tuition hikes.
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