PITTSBURG, Kan. —
Students at Pittsburg State University will see an increase in their tuition this fall.
The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved a proposal submitted by university administrators to increase tuition for the 2012-13 academic year by 6.15 percent.
An undergraduate paying in-state rates will spend $2,193, or about $127 more, in tuition this fall.
PSU President Steve Scott, who was at the board’s meeting in Topeka, said in a telephone interview Thursday that he appreciated the board’s support.
“I think they saw our proposal as carefully and thoroughly prepared, and in the end, they accepted our rationale for placing the tuition where we did,” he said.
The increase in tuition rates is expected to generate about $1.9 million in revenue, according to a report prepared for the board.
That money will go toward paying for increases in employee health insurance costs, salary increases of about 2 percent for faculty and unclassified staff members, and faculty promotions, Scott said.
“We had some fixed costs that we couldn’t control, and then some other areas of enhancements and salary increases that we felt like we had to move on,” he said.
The tuition increase also will help offset a decline in state funding, administrators have said. State support decreased from 70 percent of the budget to 52 percent between 2005 and 2011, while enrollment grew 9.8 percent during the same period, Scott previously told the Globe. Meanwhile, tuition has increased since 2005 from 30 percent to 48 percent of the university’s budget.
Also approved Wednesday by the state board was a request to expand the Gorilla Advantage in-state tuition plan to Clay and Platte counties in Missouri, as well as a request to create a separate plan that offers tuition at 150 percent of in-state rates to qualified students in Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas.
Scott said the Gorilla Advantage program has been “effective in maintaining enrollment” at PSU, even as the number of high school graduates coming out of Southeast Kansas, the university’s “traditional area of recruitment,” has declined in recent years.
“To continue to be viable as an institution, we’ve got to expand our footprint,” he said.
Both programs are expected to become effective in the 2013 fall semester.
Tuition rates
The Kansas Board of Regents was unanimous Wednesday in backing tuition increases proposed by the state’s six public universities. Tuition increases for undergraduates from Kansas will range from 2.9 percent at Fort Hays State University to 6.2 percent at Emporia State University.
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