Students bear half of cuts - JOE SNEVE, VOLANTE

With almost everyone from faculty and administrators to students surprised by the Board of Regents’ decision last week to make the smallest tuition increase in 10 years, BOR officials say putting more of the financial burdens of state cuts on students would have guaranteed more cuts next year. Paul Turman, BOR associate vice president for academic affairs, said the state legislature, which took 62 percent of the total state budget cuts out from the BOR fund, made it clear that cuts to programs and services would have to happen to make up for the deficit, not passing the buck onto the students.