Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 11, 1991 TAG: 9104110684
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-1 EDITION: EVENING
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The university's Board of Visitors is expected to vote today on a tuition proposal that calls for increases ranging from $388 for in-state undergraduates to $1,428 for out-of-state undergraduates. A 13.1 percent tuition increase for in-state undergraduates and liberal arts graduate students brings their costs to $3,354 for 1991-92. Out-of-state undergraduates and liberal arts graduate students face a 17.6 percent tuition increase. Most out-of-state students will pay $9,564 next fall if the board's executive committee approves the proposal.
Budget director Colette Capone said said the plan requires non-Virginians to pay for "at least 100 percent" of their education costs for the first time next year. Out-of-state students are now paying about 90 percent of their education costs, she said.
Tuition and fees for law school, medical school and graduate business school students probably will increase between 5.6 percent and 17.3 percent next year, she said.
"It concerns us to have to raise tuition," Capone said. "But it's a question of whether we can continue to provide faculty to teach our classes. If we don't raise tuition, we'll have to cut more courses."
The tuition increase will raise $12.4 million for the university. The school collected $2.5 million through a tuition surcharge this academic year.
Capone said the additional revenue will help offset the effects of state budget cuts that trimmed $23.6 million from the school's $400 million 1991-92 budget. Those cuts have caused larger classes, fewer course offerings and layoffs at the university.
UVa has laid off seven full-time clerical workers from the College of Arts and Sciences within the past week. Budget cuts have caused the loss of 37 full-time classified positions at the university since September, employee relations director William Vining said.
Old Dominion University in Norfolk also is proposing tuition increases because of the budget squeeze.
The increases, which are expected to be approved at a Board of Visitors meeting today, would raise annual tuition and fees 11.5 percent, to $2,784, for undergraduates from Virginia. For out-of-state undergraduates, the total would go up 17.7 percent to $6,864 in the fall.
ODU has the lowest rates among the state's six doctoral-granting universities. The school has long tried to keep down tuition increases, especially for in-state undergraduates. But officials say they have no choice now.
Last fall, ODU also instituted a steep tuition increase - 16.1 percent - for undergraduates from outside Virginia. But the rise was only 2 percent for Virginia undergraduates.
Last week, Norfolk State University approved increases in tuition and rates of 6.9 percent, to $2,330, for in-state undergraduates, and 11.9 percent, to $5,160, for non-Virginians.
by CNB