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The University of Minnesota Board of Regents is expected to hear substantial feedback on Friday regarding a proposed 3.8% tuition increase.
If approved at the end of the month, it would mark the sixth straight year in which tuition costs would have gone up at the University of Minnesota and would come at a time when many are already tight on their spending amid rising costs.
However, the University officials say funding has been tight on their end as well, pointing to stagnant state funding, inflation, and rising employee benefits as the reasons behind the tuition spike.
“One thing that we hear that I heard right from the start was how the university — we needed to make administrative cuts and things like that and that we can’t depend on the state and we can’t depend on keep raising tuition and that it was our responsibility to cut costs,” Mary Turner, a U of M Board of Regents member, said. “We are doing our part as far as...
