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August 8, 2007 UW tuition increases by smallest percentage in years Green Bay students will pay $251 more per semester The Associated Press
Resident tuition at UW-Green Bay will increase a total of $251, from $4,568 in 2006-07 to $4,819 in 2007-08. Fees will decrease slightly — $1,140, down from $1,148 last year — resulting in a total of $5,959 in tuition and fees.
The Board of Regents voted 14-3 to approve the increases, the smallest in five years in dollar amounts and by percentage in seven years, UW System President Kevin Reilly said.
"The amounts are relatively modest, and they are very competitive" with other universities, he said.
UW-Green Bay Dean of Students Sue Keihn echoed Reilly, saying the low increase is a positive development for students. Still, officials face the difficult task of striking a balance when it comes to tuition, she said.
"I think it's always a challenge, for both the regents to try to keep it down, and for them to support higher (education) while state support is going down," she said.
With the school year just weeks away, the regents convened a special meeting Tuesday to set tuition rates so the system's 160,000 students would know the size of their bills despite a deadlock in the Legislature over how much to spend on higher education.
The Legislature's budget committee proposed $181 million more for the system over the next two years, or about a 9 percent overall increase. The Democratic-controlled Senate approved a similar amount.
But the Republican-controlled Assembly would give only a $62 million bump in funding, which Reilly said would force the system to admit fewer students or drastically increase tuition. A committee of legislative leaders is meeting to try to find a compromise.
The relatively low increase may be good news, Keihn said, but budget concerns persist.
"I guess it's just the uncertainty," she said. "We don't know how the state is going to support their end of the bargain in terms of higher (education). Certainly there are concerns about whether financial aid will be able to keep up."
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