| Show Trustees say yes Dean Cruff Staff Writer Write much debate the Board of Trustees decided AFTER to add a S 1 1 per credit hour surcharge to students' students tuition President Frank Budd recommended the addition of the surcharge to make up for the money the legislature failed I to appropriate The decision dedsion of the trustees will raise to fund about new students Even with with the surcharge could end up turning away other students We need to do all we can to take as many students as we can In my former life in California we could cap enrollment because there were other places to go said Budd Trustee Julie Barrett said that a time one-time surcharge willbe will willbe willbe be sending a false notion to the legislature It makes the growth look smaller and could cheat the college out of money from the legislature next ye year lf I agree for a need for a surcharge but the principle of the students having to pick up more of the tab is the reason I will vote against it said president and trustee trustee trustee trus trus- tee Mat Baer In last Januarys January's legislative session Democratic State Legislator Kelly Atkinson proposed to add S 1 1 million to the higher education budget When that was defeated he proposed an enrollment cap I knew the colleges were going to add a surcharge or raise tuition By doing that you are capping enrollment by saying only the people that can afford to pay for college can go said Atkinson T r |
