When a committee on faculty salaries recommended a tuition increase to the Board of Trustees in 1999, students claimed the initiative was not a long-term solution to faculty salary problems.
During Wednesday's State of the University address, Chancellor James Moeser affirmed that further tuition increases are needed to increase salaries.
Moeser revealed his intentions to propose a five-year tuition increase plan to the BOT this fall. "Clearly, we must continue with graduated and measured campus-initiated increases in tuition over the next several years to address issues about the quality of the education we provide," Moeser said in his speech.
Moeser said he will not be presenting his proposal at the BOT's September meeting but that he expects his plan's framework and specific amounts to be finalized when the state legislature's session concludes, he hopes by November. "We haven't put anything on paper yet," Moeser said Thursday.
The BOT passed a plan in October 1999 that would have increased tuition $300 a year for five years. Officials were met with opposition from student leaders and some faculty members, culminating in a protest at the Morehead Building while the BOT met to approve the plan.