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WEEKLY SUMMER EDITION
VOL. 114 ISSUE NO. 155
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2004
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Jayhawk swim
Courtney Kuhlen/Kansan
Amy Gruber, Bigelow, Ark., senior, nears the wall as she completes a lap doing the backstroke. Gruber practices with other members of the Kansas swim team six days a week at 6 or 7 a.m. at the Lawrence Outdoor Aquatic Center, 727 Kentucky St. The team's coach said the year-round practice helped them become stronger swimmers. See more on the swim team on PAGE 23
University students to experience tuition raise
By Jay Senter
jsenter@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The Kansas Board of Regents approved a third consecutive year of tuition increases last week for the six state universities. Among the increases for in-state undergraduates, an 18 percent hike at the University of Kansas was the largest.
Students at the University have taken on tuition increases of nearly 20 percent each academic year since 2002-03. This year's new tuition rate means that an instate undergraduate taking 30 credit hours per year will pay $4,162, or $636 more than in 2003-04. Students at Kansas State University, the second largest school in the state, will pay 17.1 percent more next year than they did in 2003-04.
Though the increases were part of a scheduled five-year plan to bolster education dollars in the state, several regents said they voted for the measure only because the Legislature has consistently underfunded state schools.
"None of us want to vote for this," regent Dick Bond of Overland Park told the Lawrence Journal-World last week. "It needs to happen because of the failure of adequate funding for higher education in Kansas."
Still, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius spearheaded a movement this year to increase state education spending by $31 million.
Kevin Boatright, interim vice chancellor for University Relations, said the regents' comments may have been directed more at the education cuts that took place after 2001 during a statewide financial crunch.
"The board may have just been expressing some frustration that the universities have remained underfunded," Boatright said. "Our five year plan was not intended to replace state dollars — it was intended to improve the University,
SEE TUITION ON PAGE 10