North Dakota lawmakers favor tuition freeze for some
By Anna Burleson, Grand Forks Herald | |
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But Sen.
"There's quite a bit of unhappiness with some of the requests the board has been making and some of the things they've said about how we're starving them while they're getting millions and millions," he said.
The SBHE partially blamed the last tuition increase on an appropriation shortfall from
According to a presentation by NDUS Vice Chancellor for Administrative Affairs Laura Glatt, it would cost the state
These costs include money for the tuition funding model that was put into place during the last legislative session.
Non-residents
Holmberg said lawmakers were in favor of only freezing tuition at two-year campuses because "the rationale, very simply, is if you look at the region, our two-year schools have tuition that's higher."
He said another issue is there are a lot of students who come to NDUS institutions from out of state.
"If we freeze tuition at (
Holmberg also said capping tuition increases at four-year campuses is an option, but the issue will be explored in more concrete terms as the 2015 legislative session draws closer.
Scholarships
The committee also passed a motion to increase the state's merit-based scholarship program by about 33 percent, increasing the amount a student can get from
"This is a lot of great news for higher education in
Need-based scholarship got a 22 percent boost so students can get
Those two student affordability items will go forward in the form of a bill during the upcoming legislative session.
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