UT to seek 12% tuition increase

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The University of Tennessee’s Knoxville campus is asking the board of trustees for a 12 percent tuition increase in the fall to make up for state funding cuts, create a salary pool for faculty and establish a fund to help make the university a top-25 school.

...The Knoxville campus is also requesting approval for a $100 per semester increase in fees, generating $4.8 million in annual revenue to help renovate academic facilities and potentially add new buildings. Another $20 fee per semester has already been approved to finance the new University Center.
UT asks for 12 percent tuition increase Knoxville News Sentinel
 
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Gas goes up .04 cents, people are in the streets rioting talking about price gauging.

Tuition has consistently increased at a rate far greater than inflation, and people just pay it up.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Gas goes up .04 cents, people are in the streets rioting talking about price gauging.

Tuition has consistently increased at a rate far greater than inflation, and people just pay it up.
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As a student, I feel like this top 25 stuff is a load of bogus.
 
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Ridiculous man. UT can't want to expand in terms of students and keep jacking up these prices. New buildings are nice, but Tennessee Tech, UTC and MTSU are much more affordable. UT is slowly but surely turning into UGA.
 
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I don't understand building a new University Center. That place was never more than a pass-through for me. Maybe grab a bite to eat. No way you need to have a gold-plated UC ......
 
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There are alot of buildings that need renovation before the UC. Humanities is getting a little overhaul, but it needs more. Earth & Planetary Science, Buehler, etc barely have air conditioning.
 
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Yeah that sucks. I go to University of Memphis for grad school and its tuition is increasing by 11%. Pretty soon not many people will be able to attend college.
 
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Midfielder10 said:
There are alot of buildings that need renovation before the UC. Humanities is getting a little overhaul, but it needs more. Earth & Planetary Science, Buehler, etc barely have air conditioning.
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Humanities is absolutely ugly. It needs renovation badly IMO. Only problem is that so many classes are held there. It would be tough to find that many alternative classrooms while the building is being renovated.
 
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Daddy Gee said:
I don't understand building a new University Center. That place was never more than a pass-through for me. Maybe grab a bite to eat. No way you need to have a gold-plated UC ......
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this ... but do you guys think, with a new AD coming in, that the school would consider including the student football ticket costs in these additional fees? Not trying to start a student ticket debate, but if the policy would revert to the old ways, the student section could be packed again ...
 
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Midfielder10 said:
Ridiculous man. UT can't want to expand in terms of students and keep jacking up these prices. New buildings are nice, but Tennessee Tech, UTC and MTSU are much more affordable. UT is slowly but surely turning into UGA.
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Yet UGA is much harder to get into than UT.
 
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Just more debt for students to have after they graduate... For what? So some jabroni English teacher can go on sabbatical for a year and get paid while they hike the appalachian trail
 
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as has been explained on here, all they need to do up on the hill is not admit one football player and our problems are solved.
 
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VolsNSkinsFan said:
Just more debt for students to have after they graduate... For what? So some jabroni English teacher can go on sabbatical for a year and get paid while they hike the appalachian trail
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This.

Joe Johnson famously told a meeting of professors that when they could find the time to teach more than two classes a semester, he could find the money in the budget to meet their salary requests.
 
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I go to a Division 2 school, and we pay about $10/credit hour less than Alabama for in-state. We'll probably close the gap now that our tuition is going up 10% along with our future move to D-1AA


It's not just UT that's going up, it's everywhere.
 
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This is happening nationally. It's not that the price of education is going up, but that states are cutting funding to higher education in order to make their own budgets meet. Such increases will also likely raise the number of students who will be dependent on federal aid for college, thus further expanding the welfare nation.
 
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Midfielder10 said:
Thats my point. It's basically to the point at UGA where only in-state kids can afford to go there, and even then alot can't afford it.
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i agree with your point about in-state kids, but UGA is no longer harder to get into than UT. they're fairly close over the past 5-6 years thanks to HOPE and I know (from back in 05-06) some friends that went to UGA because they couldn't get in to UT (and they were from tn).
 
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The University of Washington's tuition is going up 20% this fall, it is simply the state of things. State and federal funding for higher education is one of the first things that get cut. It's why I'm a fan of state income taxes instead of a sales tax.
 
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UT should be closing or passing UGA as far as academics now that Tennessee has the HOPE. I know Georgia has an equivalent lottery scholarship, but I think Tennessee's is providing a little more money for college students.
 
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Midfielder10 said:
Thats my point. It's basically to the point at UGA where only in-state kids can afford to go there, and even then alot can't afford it.
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Seems your point was "UT can't want to expand in terms of students and keep jacking up these prices". UT turns a lot of students away. They can increase prices and still have more apply than they can accept; just like UGA does.

Midfielder10 said:
Ridiculous man. UT can't want to expand in terms of students and keep jacking up these prices. New buildings are nice, but Tennessee Tech, UTC and MTSU are much more affordable. UT is slowly but surely turning into UGA.
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