MnSCU approves tuition hike, 550 job cuts - JENNA ROSS, Star Tribune

Tuition will go up about 5 percent at schools in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system this fall. But students will pay just 3 percent more. For now. At a committee meeting Tuesday, board members expressed concern about what's to come. The budget for fiscal year 2011 "will be harder to balance," McCormick said, in part because that's when Gov. Tim Pawlenty's $50 million unallotment for the system goes into effect. Trustee Cheryl Dickson said schools must prepare students for the rise in tuition they'll see after the stimulus money runs out -- or there will be "a real disaster two years from now."