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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[November 20

Tuition Increases for Fiscal Year 1982

(17) Throughout the consideration of the FY 1982 operating budget request, the Board of Trustees has focused attention upon both the budgetary needs of the University and the realistic assessment of possible increases in revenues to meet highest priority needs. T h e board has examined ways in which general revenue funds and income derived from tuition might grow in response to the most critical University priorities. Throughout the trustees' discussion, it has been recognized that some increase in tuition attributable to cost increases in goods and services would be necessary for FY 1982, and that economic indicators such as the Higher Education Price Index would provide a reasonable benchmark for determining the level of tuition increases required. As the board reviewed the overall level of funding required for FY 1982, discussion turned to approaches that could provide funds beyond the basic costrelated price increases and gradually bring University of Illinois tuition levels into an appropriate relationship with tuition levels among other public Big Ten institutions. At this point the board examined ways in which selected tuition increases might be made, rather than simply applying higher general increases; thus, the topic of differential tuition was raised in the belief that such an approach would present the least problems in terms of student access and partially reflect higher instructional costs at the advanced levels. Finally, the Board of Trustees has reviewed the tuition levels in the professional Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary Medicine and Law. Present tuition levels for these professional programs are below those of most other Big Ten universities. Thus, an approach to bringing tuition in medicine and law to third place in the Big Ten over a five-year period and tuition in dentistry and veterinary medicine to 75 percent of medicine in the same time period was reviewed. Having reviewed these various approaches to FY 1982 tuition increases over the past several months, I recommend that the Board of Trustees take the following actions: 1. Approve a general tuition increase of approximately 9.7 percent for FY 1982 to help meet cost increases in goods and services already experienced and certain to continue. This rate generally corresponds to the 9.9 percent increase in the Higher Education Price Index for FY 1980. It is anticipated that the Board of Higher Education will recommend a tuition increase of close to 10 percent. 2. Approve an additional tuition increase for upper division and graduate students of $50 per year as a first step toward establishment of a differential tuition charge for upper division and graduate students. Approve additional tuition increase for professional programs in law of $98 per year; for medicine of $135 per year; for dentistry of $86 per year; and for veterinary medicine of $158 per year. Precise tuition levels recommended for action are shown in Table 1. Proportional increases will be implemented for part-time and nonresident students. It is understood that tuition increases in subsequent years in accord with this approach would be subject to annual review and approval by the Board of Trustees.

On motion of Dr. Donoghue, these recommendations were approved by the following vote: Aye, Dr. Donoghue, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Stone, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson. (The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Silverman; no, Mr. Maltese, Mr. Peterson.)