Reminder about Tuition hearing today!

By University Communications November 15, 2008

The Arizona Board of Regents will hold its annual public hearings on proposed tuition rates on Nov. 17 at 5 p.m.

At the public interactive hearing, the regents will hear testimony and comments from the public, students and other interested parties regarding tuition and fees for students at The University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University and Arizona State University for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Comments at the tuition hearing will be heard on a first-come, first-served basis, rotating through participant sites around the state.

The UA locations for the hearing are as follows:

Tucson Campus: Harvill Building, Room 211

Sierra Vista: Administration Building, Room PMR-203
Douglas: UA South Douglas Campus, Room 127
UA Science and Technology Park: Building 9040, Room 2242

The Arizona Board of Regents is expected to vote on tuition rates and fees for 2009-2010 at its December meeting at Arizona State University.

Earlier this month, UA President Robert N. Shelton released his recommendations, which reflect the UA's determination to preserve the quality of the UA's educational experience at a time of diminishing state funding.

Shelton recommended the following tuition and fee adjustments:
Shelton is recommending that base undergraduate tuition be increased for Arizona residents by $659, to $5,933 for undergraduates, and to $6,723 for graduate students. For all non-resident students, tuition would rise by $2,575, to $20,983 for non-resident undergraduates and to $21,276 for non-resident graduate students.
Base tuition for UA South's in-state students would rise by $450 for undergraduates, to $5,053. UA South's in-state graduate students and all non-resident students would pay the same base tuition as their main campus peers.
Under Shelton's plan, tuition for UA medical students increase by $636 to $1,660, depending on the year they will graduate.
Existing student fees, which range from $201 to $257, would rise to cover increases in financial aid commitments and critical student services, by $45 to $67, depending on student classifications.

Shelton's recommendations include professional graduate program fees, special class fees and increased enrollment deposits.

"The University is highly sensitive to the financial constraints that students and their families experience during the present time," Shelton told regents in his written recommendations. "We look around us and see financial uncertainty locally and globally. We feel the impact institutionally, and our families and friends are impacted individually." Counterbalancing that economic uncertainty, Shelton said, is the certainty that students have expressed that they do not want the quality of their UA experience to diminish.