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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12 to THURSDAY, OCT. 13, 2011 VOLUME 106 ISSUE 34
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UH Mānoa students get chance to speak about tuition increases at campus meeting E VELYN A SCHENBRENNER Staff Writer The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is planning on raising tuition, and many students are strongly opposed. The university presented information about the proposed tuition hikes at a meeting on Monday, and students and faculty were given a chance to speak their minds. “I have a feeling the decision has already been established,” said Sue Hagland, a graduate student at UH, about the tuition meeting. She added that the Board of Regents has approved salary increases for administrative employees. “Where is the accountability?” Haglund said. “I strongly, strongly opposed this increase.” She, and a number of UH students, faculty and alumni, gave testimony against the proposed hikes. There will be “modest increases” for resident undergraduate students, said Linda Johnsrud, executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, who was presenting the schedule. In 2012, tuition will increase by $132 per semester for resident undergrads. In contrast, nonresident undergrads will be charged $840 more.
Four-year universities, like UH Mānoa, will be hit harder than community colleges. Similarly, different student levels will see different increases; graduate students will see larger increases than undergrads, and professional schools – such as nursing and medicine – will see the sharpest hikes. “It’s higherpriced instruction,” Johnsrud said about graduate school. According to her, graduate and professional classes cost more to hold. Johnsrud also said that UH Mānoa is considered a fl agship university, and even after the increase, undergraduate tuition will still be less than the national average of other fl agship universities. Two reasons she cited for the tuition increase are decrease in state support and also increasing costs of proEVELYN ASCHENBRENNER/ KA LEO O HAWAI‘I viding education. She explained that state appropriations have been generous in the past, but that’s changing. “This is slowly falling apart,” she said, “and it puts pressure on tuition.” The state has cut $86 million from the university’s budget since 2009. But since enrollment has jumped, she said, the university is “ tr ying to ser ve many more students with less dollars.”
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