JMU INCREASES TUITION, FILLS NEW COLLEGE'S TOP POST

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DATE: TUESDAY, January 7, 1992                   TAG: 9201070191
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: HARRISONBURG                                LENGTH: Short
JMU INCREASES TUITION, FILLS NEW COLLEGE'S TOP POST
Students attending James Madison University this summer will have to come up with more cash for credits under a tuition increase approved Monday by the Board of Visitors.
Class credits will cost $52 each, an increase of $2 for in-state undergraduate students. Out-of-state undergraduate students will be required to pay $159 for each credit, an increase of $7.
Room and board also will go up, from $103 to $110 weekly.
Fred Hilton, a spokesman for the Harrisonburg school, said the increases were in keeping with the growing costs of providing education and maintaining the school.
Also Monday, JMU President Ronald Carrier named Lyle Wilcox as head of the new College of Integrated Science and Technology.
Wilcox, who will take over as provost in mid-January, is president and chief executive officer of Strategic Knowledge Systems, a company he founded in Oklahoma last year.
Wilcox previously was president of the University of Southern Colorado and deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Energy.
JMU plans to open its new college in the mid-1990s. Carrier said he expects an enrollment of 3,000 by the end of the century.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB