Lawmakers fear state budget cuts forced UConn tuition hike - Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror

Defending a plan to collect an extra $50 million per year from students by 2016, University of Connecticut officials said Monday that represents the cost of adding nearly 300 faculty. But another way of describing the extra student costs is that they also match a hole punched into UConn finances in recent months by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the legislature. And since UConn has saved enough money to cover the teacher positions through an efficiency effort launched in 2010, key legislators questioned Tuesday whether the tuition hike was needed to expand faculty, or to help balance the state budget?