UTC is asking for a 9.9 percent tuition increase this year because officials say they have to have the additional dollars to hire new faculty.
The school also wants to increase faculty and staff pay by 3 percent, since the last bump in university salaries was more than eight years ago.
“We never really like to increase tuition,” said Richard Brown, vice chancellor of finance and operations at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. “The reality of life is that, in order to deliver the higher quality to students and to ensure they can graduate in four years, we need some increased support.”
The University of Tennessee also is requesting a 12 percent hike in tuition at its Knoxville campus and an increase at the Martin campus, according to The Associated Press.
For complete details, see tomorrow’s Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Joan Garrett McClane 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, ...
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Good. Universities should be funded by their own revenue, not supported by taxpayer dollars. Increase tuition, and decrease taxes.
Don't they get enough from their book stores? Buy a new one for $100; sell it back to the store for $20; they sell it back as used to another student for $75. And the cycle continues.
Most bookstores are owned by Barnes & Noble.
It's pretty much a given that there will be an 8-10% tuition increase every single year at UTC, no matter if it's in a good economy or bad economy. The rate increases though don't hurt as much as say 10 years ago now that the lottery scholarship helps out so many kids financially. It would be big-time news if UTC would announce that it would NOT be seeking a tuition increase.
Either way, UTC needs to stop worrying about trying to get enrollment as high as they can and instead try to make what they do have better (quality over quantity). It is an embarassment that half of the incoming freshmen each year have to take remedial math.
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