“An increase in student tuition does not sound like something that will benefit students. Yet this is exactly what UA’s chief financial officer Scott Borgemenke said about the recent tuition increase. We recommended the increase to the Board because we believe strongly that the additional funding will benefit students.”
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An increase in student tuition does not sound like something that will benefit students. Yet this is exactly what UA’s chief financial officer Scott Borgemenke said about the recent tuition increase.

We recommended the increase to the Board because we believe strongly that the additional funding will benefit students.

How exactly will paying more for something benefit students?

According to the Special Edition of Zip Mail, the benefits will help UA retain excellent faculty, sustain student services and class sections and will also help stabilize the university’s finances as UA enters a period in which state and federal support is expected to decline.

While the first two benefits make sense, the third only makes partial sense.

With the revamp of student loans included in the recent health care bill as well as state legislation that will cut the cost of textbooks, state and federal support will in fact increase in the coming period.

In addition, this tuition increase may just be a form of deja vu, but doesn’t the university seem to continually raise tuition?

In the 2006-2007 academic year, tuition was raised. The University also stated then that the tuition increase will help students and allow the university to invest in areas student success and retention.

While UA is not the only university instituting tuition increases in recent years, that doesn’t change the fact that tuition increases in general are not a welcome change to college students’ wallets.

With every tuition increase and retaining student, universities get more and more money into their pockets.

It sounds more like universities are more interested in student retention than benefiting students and their success.

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