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Show TO NEW HEIGHTS. GRIDDERS PREPARE TO RETURN TO WORK. Like Jacks beanstalk , SUSCs enrollment figures seem to have grown overnight. Both summer and fall enrollments are reaching alLtime highs. SEE PAGES 14 & 18. Although it had a week off, SUSCs football team will be back on the road Saturday in its fourth game to oppose the Sacramento State Hornets. SEE PAGE 27. POPULATION GROWS 17 84TH YEAR; NUMBER 1 7 SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1989 CEDAR CITY, UTAH Tuition rate policy studied by USHE BY RACHEL TALBOT The rate of tuition increases for higher education in Utah is currently under the scrutiny of the State Board of Regents. On September 9, William Rolfe Kerr, commissioner of Utahs System of Higher Education, formally recommended that the Regents adopt a tuition rate policy with increases of 7 percent for universities and state colleges, and 3 percent for community colleges, for purposes of building the 1990-9- 1 budget request. Tuition will increase regardless of the states rate policy. How we do it is up to discussion, said Michael D. Richards, vice president for college relations, but that we do it is not. The issue being raised here is what is the optimum percentage for students to be paying? How do we bring everyone in line without paralyzing the system and without being an undue hardship on students and their families? said Richards. Rolfes recommendation followed the Regents suggestion that a tuition policy be established under which resident tuition and fees would be gradually adjusted to and maintained at a level which represents a fair and reasonable share of full instructional costs. The rate of increase would be subject to the differences between institutions of differing size, role and mission. Students only pay 28 percent of the cost for their college education, sa idj an Shelton, ASSUSC president. A students tuition is not even close to the total cost, she said. But, she agreed that the students ability to pay even this portion of their educational costs 'has become increasingly difficult in recent years. The proposed policy also results from student and student leader requests for a more defined tuition rate increase. Students are concerned, as is Shelton, that tuition is increasing faster than expected which limits the students and his familys ability to pay. The tuition rate proposal will not be formally adopted until the October meeting of the Regents. It will not be put in until there is input from the students, said Richards. Even following adoption, the tutition increase rate would not go into effect until the 1990-9- 1 fiscal year which begins July 1990, he said. Its not an increase yet, its just a policy a method to the madness. It will be a lot more fair, said Shelton. What the rate proposal will technically do is put a cap on how much tuition can be raised, she said. In the long run it will benefit SUSC. Its definitely not going to hurt us. Thats the neat thing about it, because its something thats going to help us down the road, said Shelton. Currently, the appropriateness of an annual 7 percent tuition increase for four-yea- r colleges and 3 percent tuition increase for community colleges is unquestioned, said Kerr. The 7 and 3 percent anables are decided bv multiplying the Consumer Price Index listing bv 2 percent, said Shelton. L p.der this proposal, nonresident tu.tion and fees would continue to be sCr at leech that wuu'd coer the major part of '.n'trn tional " ! i i Jf ' s - '4 i. . . v C i - fc- . J ' 'A-- ' t d v V I tC x K X Saturday, Kelsey Xielsen, a freshen from Rnerton, Utah, like hundreds of other new and returning SUSC student g rmtcJ into student housing m anticipation cf the school year. Xielsen is just one of the projected 3,200 students to he attending SUSC this qua, ter. Of the increased student body, approximately freshmen 0 25 ud; be fimt-t.me ii |