Tuition hikes recommended

NASHVILLE (AP) ‘ A Tennessee Board of Regents committee recommended Tuesday that tuition increase by 7 percent at the University of Memphis and by 6 percent at the system’s other 4-year universities this fall.
The board’s finance committee also voted to increase tuition by 6 percent at community colleges and technology centers, and by 14 percent at the University of Memphis’ law school.
In addition, East Tennessee State University’s medical and pharmacy schools would see tuition hikes of 5 percent and 9 percent, respectively, under the committee’s proposal.
‘This is a very hard thing for us to have to do. These tuition increases are almost mandatory for us because of the lessening of (state) appropriated dollars to higher education,’ said committee chairman J. Stanley Rogers, an attorney from Manchester.
‘Unfortunately over a period of years, appropriations for higher education has decreased and tuition has increased. Historically, the state has funded considerably more than the student. But in our 4-year institutions it is about equal now.’