(Radio Iowa) – The Board of Regents will meet Monday and consider an increase in tuition and fees at the three state universities. The Regents will hold the first reading of a proposal to raise tuition by four-point-two-five percent for in-state undergraduates. That translates to an increase of 355 dollars at the University of Iowa, 354 at Iowa State University, and 331 dollars at the University of Northern Iowa.

The Board says the increase is needed after they requested an additional 15 million dollars from the Iowa Legislature and lawmakers gave them a five-and-half million dollar increase for the next year. I-S-U is asking for the largest increase in mandatory fees at 145 dollars, the U-I requests 56 dollars, and U-N-I 27 dollars.

The proposed tuition increases come after the Board of Regents approved 50-thousand dollar salary increases for the presidents of the University of Iowa and Iowa State University. The Board of Regents also approved deferred compensation packages for I-S-U president Wendy Winterstein, U-I president Barbara Wilson and for U-N-I president Mark Nook, and Regents executive director Mark Braun.