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Trustees set tuition and fees,
grant faculty/staff salary increases

Faced with a $2.2 million decrease in state funding for the coming year, the University Board of Trustees on June 24 approved a 6 percent increase in tuition and fees for the 2005-06 academic year.

At the same time, the trustees approved a 3 percent raise for University employees.

The board also adopted the 2005-06 operating budget for the University, which includes a $243.4 million main-campus educational budget and an $11.3 million budget for BGSU Firelands.

State appropriations make up just 29.45 percent of the revenue in the 2005-06 educational budget, while student fees comprise 66 percent. The remainder is from other revenue sources.

Under BGSU’s two-tier fee structure, continuing students who enrolled at the University before the summer of 2002 and those who enrolled that summer or later pay different instructional rates. Effective fall semester 2005, main-campus students who entered before summer 2002 will pay an additional $232 in tuition per semester, while those who entered in summer 2002 or later will pay an additional $244. The general fee has been decreased slightly (by .6 percent) to keep the overall tuition and fee increase to 6 percent, the cap set by the state
of Ohio.

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