The three public universities in Arizona — Arizona State University (ASU), University of Arizona (UA), and Northern Arizona University (NAU) — are demanding tuition increases. They are proposing increases of 2% to 5.6%. A committee of the board of regents will vote on the hikes on April 7.
The universities cite inflation as the reason for the increase, with NAU President José Luis Cruz Rivera asserting the increase “accounts for less than half of current inflationary costs.”
In its 93-page proposal, ASU stated that it was sticking to its decade-long pledge to keep tuition hikes to 3% or less. Most of its proposal consists of comparing the costs of various degrees offered at ASU with the costs of those degrees at other universities — but the other schools listed in comparison are mostly private universities and higher-performing public universities, which are naturally expected to have higher tuition.
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