NCSU approves tuition increase

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UNC-CH trustees approve tuition, fee hikes

At UNC-Chapel Hill, trustees have signed off on a tuition and fee increase package for the next academic year.

The plan, which will now be submitted to the UNC system's Board of Governors, raises tuition $200 for in-state students. Out-of-state undergrads would get a $1,127 rate hike, while out-of-state grad students would pay $732 more in 2010-11. Fees would go up $96.01 for all students.

There's a catch to all this. The 2009 General Assembly has already set rates for 2010-11 that will raise in-state tuition $200 or 8 percent, whichever is less. That decision trumps anything on the campus or UNC-system level.

UNC-CH board might decide on tuition increase

Chancellor James Moeser's proposals for relatively small increases for all students except in-state undergraduates will go before the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees this morning.

The board's audit and finance committee voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend the chancellor's proposal to the full board.

That proposal calls for more modest tuition increases than the ranges put forth by the Tuition and Fee Advisory Task Force.

Students protest tuition increase

A planned tuition increase at UNC-Chapel Hill is meeting some opposition from students who want more say in the process.

About a dozen students toting protest signs attended a board of trustees committee meeting Wednesday. They had not signed up in advance and were not allowed to speak.

They may try again this morning when the full board considers the tuition and fee increases.

UNC-CH considers tuition hike

UNC-Chapel Hill trustees said Thursday they are considering tuition increases ranging from $200 to $300 for in-state undergraduates. Tuition for out-of-state students could increase $600 to $900. Fee increases there could add $170.

Students at N.C. State University would pay about $416 more next year in tuition and fees under a plan expected to be approved today by the school's trustees.

The requests from both schools must be approved by the University of North Carolina system Board of Governors, which sets tuition for all 16 public universities in the state.

UNC tuition hike too small, some say

Students at UNC-Chapel Hill will continue to pay far less for their educations than peers at most of the campus's competitors under a tuition plan approved Thursday. And that, some say, is a problem.

In considering tuition hikes each year, campus leaders weigh the price of quality against the state's historic mandate to keep college costs low. This year, the task was complicated by the recession and a legislative mandate that will take tuition revenue away from public university campuses.

Under the UNC-CH plan trustees approved Thursday, in-state undergraduate students would pay nearly $300 more next year for a total of $5,921.42 in tuition and fees. Out-of-state undergrads would pay an increase of about $1,223 for a total of $24,736.42. Those rates don't include room, board, books and other expenses.