Out-of-state students to pay same fee
increase as Bay State residents

By Sarah R. Buchholz, Chronicle staff

ee raises for out-of-state students on campus will be no greater than those for in-state students, Chancellor John V. Lombardi announced at the March 13 Faculty Senate meeting.

     The Board of Trustees gave the system's chancellors the ability to raise in-state student fees by $1,000 and out-of-state fees by $2,000.

     "This institution is going to raise fees the same for in-state and out-of-state students," Lombardi said.

     After the senate meeting, he said charging out-of-state students more money than it costs to serve them isn't right. Tuition should be different for out-of-staters because the state subsidizes the cost of tuition for in-state students, he said, but most fees should be the same.

     Lombardi has been arguing for tuition-retention on the campus, rather than having tuition go to the state first and return to the campus in the form of part of the state appropriation. Retaining tuition would allow the University to control its revenue better through tuition hikes and ease the rate at which fees, which already are retained on campus, increase.