PITTSBURG POST-GAZETTE: Nearly 115,000 students attending Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities would see their yearly tuition rise by 3 percent effective this fall if the system’s board of governors, meeting today, approves a recommendation from its finance committee.
The $194 increase unveiled by the committee Monday in Harrisburg would bring the in-state student tuition rate to $6,622 for the 2013-14 academic year, and in doing so generate approximately $21 million in additional revenue, according to State System spokesman Kenn Marshall.
Even with that extra income, the State System of Higher Education still would face a roughly $56 million shortfall in its proposed budget of about $1.6 billion. That likely would be offset by spending cuts on the 14 campuses including California, Clarion, Edinboro, Indiana and Slippery Rock universities in Western Pennsylvania… (more)
EDITOR: So without having to pay a $60 million fine, the State would not have needed to increase tuition last year, this year, and probably would not next year.
Of course it will. Because going to college isn’t expensive enough as it is; not to mention being cut off at a certain amount to acquire in student loans, even if you aren’t done getting your degree.
It’s ridiculous and is no wonder why so many people don’t bother trying to get a college degree. It’s too damn expensive.