Staff Reports
In a bold move, South Dakota's Board of Regents decided to freeze tuition for public universities for the upcoming academic year. The decision cost taxpayers around $4.3 million. With that in mind, who needs that much money anyway?
The board had to consider various funding requests, including a request for a one-time appropriation of almost $50 million. They also had a base funding request of about $15 million. One of the most important factors that the board considered was the tuition freeze.
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The members of the board were initially concerned about the rising cost of education. They wondered how they could offset it in the future. Right now, they're only focused on making everyone happy by freezing tuition rates.
According to Vice President Jeff Partridge, the state's budget for the next fiscal year may be tighter than in the past, but that shouldn't prevent the university from implementing a tuition freeze.
Instead of presenting a comprehensive wish list to the governor, the board decided to focus on what it considers to be the most important factors that the state should consider when it comes to funding higher education. One of these is the tuition freeze.
