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"There will, I'm sure, be consequences [for] what had been envisioned for [the University of Kansas] next year," said Breeze Richardson, Kansas Board of Regents director of
Some students' tuition and fees to increase
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Some students at state universities in Kansas, including the University of Kansas, face a tuition increase that could cost them anywhere between $150 to $400 per semester.
About one-third of incoming
About one thirtiefreshmen, transfer and current students will be affected by a 3.6 percent tuition rate increase at state schools decided Thursday. But students with fixed tuition, which is about two-thirds of the student population, will not see an increase this fall.
After the initial proposal on Wednesday to hike up tuition rates, the new plan limits increases at state schools effective this fall. This summer's tuition is not affected.
The hike in tuition and fees will cost undergraduate students up to several hundred dollars per semester. For example, an out-of-state undergraduate's tuition would increase by $413.25, or 3.6 percent of $11,473.50 cost per semester, and in-state by $158.25, according to the Regents tuition and fees report for 2015-16.
communications. "They will not be able to bring in that much revenue."
"There will, I'm sure, be consequences [for] what had been envisioned for [the University of Kansas] next year."
Compared to the other regents schools, tuition at the University of Kansas and University of Kansas Medical Center is already the most expensive. However, the limit makes sure the extra money paid helps the
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state rebound from its $406 million budget deficit.
The limit on the tuition hike means it won't affect some students.
"Because of the four year tuition compact that [the Kansas Board
of Regents] signed into motion in 2012, [the tuition increase] hasn't affected me at all," said Haley Becker, a senior majoring in unified early childhood education from Springfield, Mo. "Without the guarantee that my tuition would not be raised, assuming I graduate in the traditional four years, I would have not been able to afford going to KU."
The tuition compact, also known as guaranteed tuition, was signed in 2012 and means the tuition is fixed for first-time freshmen all four years they are at a university. The limit approved by legislators and regents makes sure tuition and fees cannot exceed an increase of more than 3.6 percent for all students not under compact tuition, whether resident
or nonresident, this coming academic year.
Per protocol, each year every Regents university submits a detailed tuition and fees proposal that lasts through a review process that lasts almost the entire year. In that time, Richardson said the Board of Regents looks at what programs need what resources, the financial aid the University wants to provide, where costs are kept down, the projected enrollment and where adjustments are proposed.
"That process had begun earlier this year, so the proposals, it's fair to say, were originally drafted before the legislature took action," Richardson said.
"The Regents, especially those who work on committee, spend a lot of time to know what the need is and are in a better position to determine tuition rates than the legislature is," she said. "The spirit was to hold this to a lesser increase. That's what was done."
The legislature and regents focused on six campuses over two days of session and there was "a lot of conversation," Richardson said.
The original proposed tuition increase was 3.8 percent for both out-of-state and in-state undergraduate and graduate students and a 6 percent increase for in-state and out-ofstate KU Medical School students. For in-state University of Kansas students, that increase would have also hiked the total tuition and fee amount pay up to 4.9 percent.
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