{"id":52563,"date":"2011-12-19T13:37:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T18:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=52563"},"modified":"2011-12-22T15:53:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T20:53:42","slug":"trustees-approve-four-year-tuition-and-fee-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/12\/trustees-approve-four-year-tuition-and-fee-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trustees Approve Four-Year Tuition and Fee Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"President<\/a>
President Susan Herbst, left, speaks with the media about the tuition increase to fund the hiring of 290 new professors, after the Board of Trustees meeting on Dec. 19. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Board of Trustees today passed a four-year tuition and fee plan that will allow the University to significantly expand its teaching and research capabilities by adding 290 professors to its faculty by fiscal year 2016.<\/p>\n

Under the plan, the total cost of attending UConn \u2013 tuition, fees, room and board \u2013 will rise by about 4.5 percent over each of the next four years. If UConn\u2019s state appropriation increases by 0.5 percent during each of the next four years, tuition and fees would rise by between 5.5 percent and 6.3 percent each year. If UConn\u2019s state appropriation remains the same over the next four years, tuition and fees will rise by between 6.0 percent and 6.8 percent each year. Room and board costs will increase by 3 percent.<\/p>\n

The revenue these increases will generate will go to hiring additional faculty in order to decrease UConn\u2019s student-to-faculty ratio, expand course offerings, and help students to graduate on time. Every semester a student attends the University beyond four years as an undergraduate means additional tuition, fee, room and board costs \u2013 which are far greater than the cost of the tuition increase.<\/p>\n

\"President<\/a>
President Susan Herbst speaks on the proposed tuition increase during the Board of Trustees meeting at Rome Ballroom. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cProfessors in the classroom and the students they teach are the heart and soul of a university,\u201d said UConn President Susan Herbst. \u201cThe 290 new professors this will allow us to hire will go a long way in helping students get the courses they need when they need them so they can graduate on time. It will have a dramatic and incredibly positive effect on our students and our overall research capacity for years to come. The people of Connecticut have built a great university and this will allow us to best serve the state, advance as an institution, and become even better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The extraordinary growth in UConn\u2019s student enrollment has far outpaced the growth in faculty; from 1995 to 2011, undergraduate enrollment increased by 53 percent \u2013 from 14,667 to 22,472 \u2013 while the number of faculty at UConn has increased by only 16 percent over the same period \u2013 from 1,148 to 1,330. UConn\u2019s student-to-faculty ratio was 14-to-1 in 1996; it is now 18-to-1. The University\u2019s goal is for the ratio to be 15-to-1, which this plan will accomplish.<\/p>\n

Every increase in tuition is matched by an increase in financial aid, to help mitigate the effect of the increase. About three-quarters of UConn students received financial aid in 2011, including loans, grants, and scholarships, both need-based and merit-based. Next year, 20 cents of every net tuition dollar will go to need-based financial aid for UConn students. The rate at which UConn graduates default on their debt is 2.4 percent, compared to the national rate of 7 percent.<\/p>\n

Among the top 25 public universities in the nation \u2013 UConn ranked 19th in the most recent U.S. News listing \u2013 UConn had the third lowest tuition increase last year at 2.4 percent. UConn\u2019s 2012 tuition and mandatory fee cost places it at 26th in terms of cost, or in the middle of the top 53 public universities in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\"Samuel<\/a>
Samuel Tracy, president of the Undergraduate Student Government, speaks on the proposed tuition increase. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Professor<\/a>
Professor Kent Holsinger, chair of the University Senate Executive Committee, addresses the board. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The move will allow the University to hire 290 more professors and increase course offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":52558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[39],"class_list":["post-52563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 09:55:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52563"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52854,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52563\/revisions\/52854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/52558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52563"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=52563"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=52563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}