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Miami maintains tuition freeze through May
Miami University officials are proposing to keep tuition frozen for Ohio students through the 2009-2010 fall and spring semesters, but that Miami increase tuition by 3.5 percent for the 2010 summer sessions.
University officials announced their proposal to the board of trustees on Wednesday, Sept. 2.
Miami trustees announced at their last meeting in June that the university would keep tuition frozen for the 2009-2010 academic year.
That decision was reached before the state legislature passed a biennial budget that modestly increases higher education funding this fiscal year and significantly reduces it the following fiscal year, according to university officials.
To compensate for overall reduced public funding, state legislators allowed for a 3.5 percent in-state tuition increase this year and next.
Miami is facing significant budget cuts this year, but decided to delay an increase until summer because of the earlier announcement about a year-long tuition freeze at the school, according to David Creamer, vice president for finance and business services.
“We believe that a tuition increase prior to next summer would impose an unanticipated financial hardship on Ohio students and their families,” Creamer said.
University officials will evaluate the possibility of increasing tuition in fall 2010. A decision will be made by spring, officials said.
Miami’s board of trustees meets next on Sept. 18.
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