Tuition is guaranteed for four years, so a 9 percent hike would equate to an increase of about 3 to 3.5 percent a year. An 18 percent hike would be about 7 to 7.5 percent a year, Ikenberry said.<\/p>\n
Tuition is $9,484 this year for freshman at the Urbana-Champaign campus.<\/p>\n
While trustees won’t approve tuition rates until later this year, they approved an increase in fees and housing rates today. At the Urbana-Champaign campus, students will pay $2,842 next year, up 2.8 percent.<\/p>\n
Fees in <\/a>Chicago<\/a> will be $2,928, up 1.3 percent, and Springfield students will pay $1,713, up 6.4 percent.<\/p>\n “We are holding those down understanding there will be more pressure on the tuition side,” Ikenberry said.<\/p>\n Board chair Christopher Kennedy said he was concerned about tuition, saying he doesn’t want the state’s public flagship university “to be available only to the wealthy.”<\/p>\n Facing a backlog in state payments, U. of I. officials announced earlier this month that employees would be required to take up to 10 unpaid days off.<\/p>\n University of Illinois interim president Stanley Ikenberry cautioned today that the next tuition hike would be at least 9 percent but “could go double that” in light of the state’s bleak financial picture. “It is too early to tell, but I think we need to be prepared to think in those terms,” Ikenberry told the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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