The Arizona Board of Regents will soon be voting on the university presidents' proposals for tuition increases. Dr. Shelton has recently amended his proposal to slightly decrease the overall increase from about $696 down to $500 per semester for in-state undergraduates.
However, student groups on the U of A campus are not yet satisfied, and with good reason. They are calling for predictable increases in the coming years so that students will not get half way through a degree and then be forced to pay outrageous prices to finish it.
Student groups call for predictable tuition increases:
http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/storage/paper997/news/2008/12/04/News/Asa-Proposal.Gains.Ground-3569602.shtml
Even CNN.com has picked up on the college crisis:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/12/03/college.costs/index.html?iref=newssearch
What is particularly disconcerting is that no clear decisions have yet been made on the merging of some colleges and departments and that the university will be switching into winter break mode in a couple of weeks. Our biggest concern here at Sallygradstudent is that decisions will be made over break and implemented without the usual pomp and circumstance. This means that we could come back to a whole new system.
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