Senate changes direction, assures tuition freeze
The full Senate chose to change the ruling of the Senate Appropriations Committee and restore almost $15 million worth of higher education funding in part of the budget it approved today. This keeps Nixon's tuition freeze deal in place.
Under the tuition freeze agreement Nixon made late last year with public university presidents, tuition would remain the same for in-state undergraduate students if higher education funding wasn't cut more than $50 million, $42 million for four-year universities and $8 million for two-year colleges.
Last Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee cut this funding by additional $15 million. That would've broken the tuition freeze agreement, but Wednesday the full Senate voted to support it.
The UM system Board of Curators are set to mark tuition rates for the coming year on Thursday. According to a previous Maneater report, Board of Curators Vice Chairman Warren Erdman said its possible not all the rates would be brought up at tomorrow's meeting.
Stay with The Maneater for more coverage of this decision.
5:57 p.m., April 19, 2010
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