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Board Approves ‘Reasonable’ Increases Pegged to Legislative Funding HOUSTON, June 19, 2007 – The University of Houston System Board of Regents approved rates for fiscal year 2008 in a special meeting held Tuesday at UH. There will be a 6.9 percent increase in tuition and fees at UH for a typical resident undergraduate student taking 12 credit hours. That would amount to a $202 increase, to $3,144 per semester compared with $2,942 for fiscal year 2007. At UH-Clear Lake, there will be a 6.2 percent increase ($128). At UH-Downtown, the increase will be 9.9 percent ($183). And at UH-Victoria, there will be a 5.9 percent increase ($114). These increases are based on a “sliding scale” adopted by the board in April that pegged the rates to the specific amount of funding received from the Texas Legislature. With the legislative session concluded and final appropriation levels determined, the board voted to approve the rates for the UH System within the scale that it had previously announced. “We’re grateful Gov. Perry and the Legislature increased
funding for higher education in Texas,” said Leroy Hermes,
Board of Regents chairman. “We are working to ensure that
our tuition and fees are as reasonable as possible while continuing
to make strides toward achieving flagship status.” More information: http://www.uh.edu/admin/media/nr/2007/04april/040407slidingscale_regents.html ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM The University of Houston System is the state’s only metropolitan
higher education system, encompassing four universities and two
multi-institution teaching centers. The universities are the University
of Houston, a nationally recognized doctoral degree-granting, comprehensive
research university; the University of Houston-Downtown, a four-year
undergraduate university beginning limited expansion into graduate
programs; and the University of Houston-Clear Lake and the University
of Houston-Victoria, both upper division and master’s-level
institutions. The centers are the UH System at Sugar Land and the
UH System at Cinco Ranch. In addition, the UH System includes KUHF-FM,
Houston’s National Public Radio and classical radio station,
and KUHT-TV, the nation’s first educational television station. For more information about UH visit the university’s ‘Newsroom’ at www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom. |
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