Staff at the Tennessee Board of Regents will propose a 6 percent tuition increase at its four-year universities and two-year community colleges, which includes Chattanooga State, starting in the next school year, according to board documents.
The Board of Regents finance committee will discuss the proposed tuition increase today at a meeting in Nashville, where members will vote whether to present the increase to the full board at a meeting later this month.
The Board of Regents is considering tuition increases to offset a $55 million cut from the state’s higher-education operating budget, officials said.
The University of Tennessee system already has announced that they will limit tuition increases to 6 percent.
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Joan Garrett has been a staff writer for the Times Free Press since August 2007. Before becoming a general assignment writer for the paper, she wrote about business, higher education and the court systems. She grew up the oldest of five sisters near Birmingham, Ala., and graduated with a master's and bachelor's degrees in journalism from the University of Alabama. Before landing her first full-time job as a reporter at the Times Free Press, she ...
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