
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, April 26, 1990                   TAG: 9004260498
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: FREDERICKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

STATE COLLEGE ALIGNS FEES WITHIN LAWS

Legislation limiting how much state-supported colleges can raise tuition to offset budget cuts prompted Mary Washington College officials to scale back their proposed fee increase.

At its annual one-day veto session April 18, the General Assembly accepted Gov. Douglas Wilder's budget amendment prohibiting state colleges from recovering more than half of the 5 percent cut in state funds through tuition increases.

Mary Washington's planned tuition increase for next fall would have brought in about $335,000, more than half the $550,000 the college is losing in state funding, according to Richard L. Miller, vice president for business and finance.

Frank C. Mason, assistant vice president for business and finance, said the reduction in funds will have a negligible impact on students and college life.

Mason said the college will postpone some equipment purchases, delay filling vacant positions and transfer some expenditures to other accounts.

The new tuition for in-state students will be $1,474 per year, $28 more than last year. Out-of-state students will pay $4,430, a $308 increase.

by CNB