Will Rutgers hike tuition? Rate to be finalized today

[Tango Two]

Rutgers University students should know by the end of today how much it will cost to attend the school this fall.
The university's Board of Governors is scheduled to meet at 1:30 p.m. in Winants Hall in New Brunswick to finalize the tuition rate for the 2015-16 school year.



Link---> http://www.nj.com/education/2015/07...on_rate_to_be_finalized_tod.html#incart_river

 

[mal359]

Those bums should GET A JOB like I did!

- LC '84

 

[retired711]

Today's Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the increase will be 2.3%.

 

[Tango Two]

Rutgers University's undergraduate tuition and fees will go up 2.3 percent — or by about $300 — this fall under a plan approved by the state university's board Thursday.


Link---> http://www.nj.com/education/2015/07/rutgers_tuition_2015-2016_undergraduate_increase.html

 

[Tango Two]

Rutgers officials said they are trying to keep tuition hikes below the inflation rate. But the school needed to ask students for more money to cover a cut in state funding and the extra money required for 2 percent salary increases for professors and other unionized workers.


Link---> http://www.nj.com/education/2015/07...15-2016_undergraduate_gradu.html#incart_river

 

[retired711]

Rutgers officials said they are trying to keep tuition hikes below the inflation rate. But the school needed to ask students for more money to cover a cut in state funding and the extra money required for 2 percent salary increases for professors and other unionized workers.


Link---> http://www.nj.com/education/2015/07...15-2016_undergraduate_gradu.html#incart_river

yes, after years of denying raises to staff and faculty, Rutgers finally had to give something. BTW, it is interesting to note that Penn State decided not to raise tuition for Pennsy residents. Temple and Pitt, though, did so by amount the same percentage as Rutgers.

 

[srru86]

You could see this coming...
Star Ledger
Rutgers faculty: Don't blame us for tuition hike
If you want to avoid the click the fault is high paid administrators and sports.

Look you got the raise, good for you. Don't be a baby and try to blame everybody else. Fact is that increase has to be paid by somebody. Like everything else around here it's mostly coming from students. Have the guts to face your students and their parents and say you earned it.

Do some back of the napkin calcs:
$3.67 billion budget.
Assume 2/3 goes to salary and benefits. (Neither the University or the Union made this number easy to find, but I know at others that is about the number) That's about 2.47 Billion. So a 2.3% raise is $55.7 million dollars. That's real money. Not going to make that up by eliminating Kyle Flood's salary.

 

[retired711]

There were plenty of tuition increases in the recent years when the faculty and staff received no raise. And 2.3% is a perfectly reasonable tuition increase in line with other increases at state universities in the area. (see my earlier post). So it's not appropriate for anyone to act as though this is somehow the faculty's and staff"s fault.

 

[srru86]

There were plenty of tuition increases in the recent years when the faculty and staff received no raise. And 2.3% is a perfectly reasonable tuition increase in line with other increases at state universities in the area. (see my earlier post). So it's not appropriate for anyone to act as though this is somehow the faculty's and staff"s fault.

It's not anybody's fault, it is the cost of doing business. The faculty union is pointing fingers and deflecting. It is not athletics fault either.

 

[retired711]

It's not anybody's fault, it is the cost of doing business. The faculty union is pointing fingers and deflecting. It is not athletics fault either.

I understand, I think, why the faculty union hates athletics -- the BOG subsidy could be going to academics instead, at least in theory -- but you're certainly right they carry it too far.