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3 percent Iowa tuition hike proposed for spring semester

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July 28th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – Undergraduate students at Iowa’s three public universities may have to pay $100 more for tuition next spring. The Iowa Board of Regents released a proposal Tuesday for a 3 percent tuition increase to go into effect for the spring 2016 semester. The board will discuss the increase next week and is expected to vote in September.

The increase would mean that full-time undergraduate resident students at the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa would pay $100 more. The proposal says that lawmakers only gave the schools a $6.5 million base budget increase, far less than the regents requested.  Earlier this month, Gov. Terry Branstad vetoed an additional $6.2 million in one-time funding for the schools that had been approved by lawmakers.