ISU undergraduate students who are residents of Iowa could see an increase of $240 for the 2012-2013 school year. Nonresident undergraduates are facing an increase of $480.
"Since [the fiscal year] 2009, the Regent universities have absorbed over $144 million in permanent budget reductions to general university funds. Despite the material cuts imposed, the Board of Regents held tuition and fees increases for undergraduate resident students to an average of 4.6 percent over this time period," according to the proposal. Government of the Student Body President Dakota Hoben said he has not received any negative feedback from students about the tuition raise. "I literally haven't heard a negative comment [at Iowa State]," Hoben said. He said all three Regent's Universities have endorsed the raise in tuition, but the University of Northern Iowa and the University of Iowa are having a little more opposition to the tuition proposal.
