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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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going to have to make some tough and difficult decisions,\u201d David Hopkins, university president, told a gathering of hundreds of university employees at the school\u2019s annual budget meeting.<\/p>\n
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