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By Jeff Latzke
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The governing board of Oklahoma State University plans to consider raising tuition and fees by 9.9 percent again next year.
It would be the second straight year that students at the Stillwater and Tulsa campuses would have tuition increased by just under 10 percent.
Regents will meet Friday in Oklahoma City to consider the proposal, which would raise the price of a year’s education to $6,201 for Oklahoma residents and $16,556 for undergraduates from out-of-state.
Graduate students would also face a 9.9 percent increase, pushing the cost of 30 credit hours — the approximate course load for one year — to $5,489 for Oklahomans and $16,220 for nonresidents.
Students at the university’s Health Sciences Center would see smaller increases. Graduate students from Oklahoma would pay 4.7 percent more next school year, while nonresidents would pay 8.4 percent more.
According to figures laid out in the regents’ agenda, Oklahoma State wants the increases to help pay for rising mandatory costs that will require $4.7 million more funding this year and planned faculty and staff raises that will cost about $5.4 million. The budget calls for a 4 percent raise for faculty members and a 3 percent increase for staff.
The tuition and fee increases are expected to bring in about $12.7 million. Without providing a rank, the agenda item called Oklahoma State’s rates among the “most affordable” in the Big 12 Conference. University of Oklahoma President David Boren has said he also expects his school to propose a 9.9 percent increase in tuition and fees.
Any tuition increase approved by Oklahoma State’s board of regents would have to be subsequently authorized by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.
New students hoping to get a deal on their tuition can opt for a new plan that would offer a guaranteed steady rate over the next four years. Under that plan, students can lock in their tuition level at a rate 15 percent higher than the costs for the 2008-09 school year and avoid potential increases over the next three years.
Regents are also scheduled to vote on a plan to pay Ardent Health Services $550,000 to continue its ownership of the OSU Medical Center for an additional year before transferring it into a public trust and on a proposal to sell 15 acres of land to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation to build a college adjacent to the Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology in Okmulgee.
Sports-related agenda items include a vote on a development agreement with the city of Stillwater to move forward with the proposed athletic village and authorizing athletic director Mike Holder and President Burns Hargis to negotiate a raise for coach Kurt Budke, who guided the women’s basketball team to the NCAA tournament’s round of 16 last season.
The athletic department has also proposed a $4 million travel budget for the next fiscal year, and increases in its spending on catering and other services.
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