WSU officials recommend 3.5 percent tuition hike

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FAIRBORN – Top Wright State University leaders recommended a $273 tuition increase Thursday making the school the first public university in the region to move to raise tuition to help offset budget cuts.

Raising tuition to the proposed 3.5 percent cap will help WSU offset a $14 million a year loss of state funding – the largest reduction in the schools history. The proposed state budget cuts higher education spending 10.5 percent next year.

“We are going to have to make some tough and difficult decisions,” David Hopkins, university president, told a gathering of hundreds of university employees at the school’s annual budget meeting.

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