Mid-year tuition hike at UMD

[Anonymous]

Not a huge increase, but, still, that doesn't seem fair.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/01/16/halfway-through-the-school-year-tuition-is-going-up-at-u-md/?hpid=z3

[Anonymous]

It's not fair to spring this on students mid-year but I don't think it's much of a big deal. We are very, very lucky to have such a cheap system for great quality in Maryland. $150 is barely a blip on the radar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not fair to spring this on students mid-year but I don't think it's much of a big deal. We are very, very lucky to have such a cheap system for great quality in Maryland. $150 is barely a blip on the radar.

True, and Maryland has really held the line on tuition increases in recent years. But I fear that will change in next few years under the new budget-slashing governor.

[Anonymous]

It's possible this is just the early warning signs of larger hikes. Maybe the school shouldn't have spent $25 million on the Cole Fieldhouse and just built a slightly smaller football/Stanford-rejects factory with just the donation money and Big10 Revenues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not fair to spring this on students mid-year but I don't think it's much of a big deal. We are very, very lucky to have such a cheap system for great quality in Maryland. $150 is barely a blip on the radar.

True, and Maryland has really held the line on tuition increases in recent years. But I fear that will change in next few years under the new budget-slashing governor.

+1

[Anonymous]

The cole field house complex is going forward with 125 million in private/big ten dollars. The state is chipping in 25 million toward the entrepreneurial/ sports medicine part of the facility.

[Anonymous]

Faculty are being furloughed too, after 4 years of no raies, so sharing the pain. Very much tied to the state of MD's financial woes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Faculty are being furloughed too, after 4 years of no raies, so sharing the pain. Very much tied to the state of MD's financial woes.

But wait, I thought Democrats supported education and higher taxes.