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.

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.

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.

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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

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 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.

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.

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